CVE-2023-50255
Zip Path Traversal in Deepin-Compressor
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
Deepin-Compressor is the default archive manager of Deepin Linux OS. Prior to 5.12.21, there's a path traversal vulnerability in deepin-compressor that can be exploited to achieve Remote Command Execution on the target system upon opening crafted archives. Users are advised to update to version 5.12.21 which addresses the issue. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Published
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.
Weakness
- CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-23 and its CVEs
- CWE-26: Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename' (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-26 and its CVEs
- CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs
Affected products
linuxdeepin · developer-center
- affected < 5.12.21
References (2)
- https://github.com/linuxdeepin/developer-center/security/advisories/GHSA-rw5r-8p9h-3gp2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-compressor/commit/82f668c78c133873f5094cfab6e4eabc0b70e4b6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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