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CVE-2001-1270

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2001-07-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .. (dot dot) attack on the archived files.

Affected Platforms

Pkware Pkzip

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References