A flaw was found in Unzip. The vulnerability occurs during the conversion of a wide string to a local string that leads to a heap of out-of-bound write. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Public exploits 2
- ByteHackr/unzip_poc PoC on GitHub
- nanaao/unzip_poc PoC on GitHub
Each line links to the index that lists it, never to exploit code. Exploit-DB's "verified" and a Metasploit rank of good or better count as verified; a PoC-in-GitHub entry is a repository's claim.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.5 · unzip_project, redhat, fedoraprojectNVD modified 2026-10-08 21:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 5
cpe:2.3:a:unzip_project:unzip:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:-:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051395 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ByteHackr/unzip_poc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5202 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051395 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ByteHackr/unzip_poc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-17 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5202 Third Party Advisory