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Arbitrary File Write Affecting diffoscope package, versions [,77)

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 0.33% (71st percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-DIFFOSCOPE-455600
  • published 30 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 13 Apr 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 13 Apr 2018

CVE-2017-0359 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-254 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade diffoscope to version 77 or higher.

Overview

diffoscope is a tool to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write due to not properly escaping the filenames when extracting archive members.