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Vulnerability details: VCID-fw9h-pgxq-h7cf
Vulnerability ID VCID-fw9h-pgxq-h7cf
Aliases CVE-2015-2060
Summary cabextract before 1.6 does not properly check for leading slashes when extracting files, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute directory traversal attacks via a malformed UTF-8 character that is changed to a UTF-8 encoded slash.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 4.8
Risk 2.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
System Score Found at
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
epss 0.09239 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2060
cvssv3.1 5.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2060
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151145.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151147.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-2060
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2060
http://www.cabextract.org.uk/
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:064
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/18/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/16
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/23/24
778753 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778753
CVE-2015-2060 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2060
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2060
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2060
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.92375
EPSS Score 0.09239
Published At Aug. 10, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-31T11:51:19.653371+00:00 EPSS Importer Import https://epss.cyentia.com/epss_scores-current.csv.gz 37.0.0