Vulnerability · Published Feb 9, 2022 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2022-0530

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in unzip. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.1% (higher than 82% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)2.1%top 18.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20unzip6.0-r11ALPINE-CVE-2022-0530
Alpine:v3.21unzip6.0-r11ALPINE-CVE-2022-0530
Alpine:v3.22unzip6.0-r11ALPINE-CVE-2022-0530
Alpine:v3.23unzip6.0-r11ALPINE-CVE-2022-0530
Alpine:v3.24unzip6.0-r11ALPINE-CVE-2022-0530
Debian:12unzip6.0-27DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0530
Debian:13unzip6.0-27DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0530
Debian:14unzip6.0-27DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0530
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSunzip6.0-26ubuntu3.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0530
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSunzip6.0-26ubuntu3.1USN-5673-1

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a unzip 6.0

References