Vulnerability · Published Oct 13, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck
CVE-2026-110231muCommander through 1.6.2 Path Traversal via Archive Extraction to FTP/SFTP
Medium 4.7
In plain English
A medium-severity path traversal in muCommander from muCommander. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 20% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
muCommander through 1.6.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in UnpackJob that allows attackers to write files outside the destination folder by bypassing its ZipSlip check with unnormalized remote paths. Attackers can craft TAR or ZIP entries like ../../.ssh/authorized_keys that, when extracted to FTP or SFTP folders, create or overwrite files writable by the user's remote account.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| muCommander | muCommander | 0 – through 1.6.2 |
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
References
- https://hackmd.io/@1ExmmukzRMWN7B4gQ4W-4Q/ryH-CfoiMl third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/mucommander/mucommander/blob/3bc2118e13681a8018b84a06f1c5fea4a3f940f7/mucommander-core/src/main/java/com/mucommander/job/impl/UnpackJob.java#L233-L256 technical-description
- https://github.com/mucommander/mucommander/blob/3bc2118e13681a8018b84a06f1c5fea4a3f940f7/mucommander-commons-file/src/main/java/com/mucommander/commons/file/AbstractFile.java#L1021-L1023 technical-description
- https://github.com/mucommander/mucommander/blob/3bc2118e13681a8018b84a06f1c5fea4a3f940f7/mucommander-protocol-sftp/src/main/java/com/mucommander/commons/file/protocol/sftp/SFTPFile.java#L586-L622 technical-description
- 1.6.2-1 Release Notes release-notes
- VulnCheck Advisory: muCommander through 1.6.2 Path Traversal via Archive Extraction to FTP/SFTP third-party-advisory