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CVE-2015-0557
Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes from paths, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute…
- 5.8MediumCVSS base score
- 3.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Open-source ARJ archiver 3.10.22 does not properly remove leading slashes from paths, which allows remote attackers to conduct absolute path traversal attacks and write to arbitrary files via multiple leading slashes in a path in an ARJ archive.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- MDVSA-2015:201 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-5546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150105 Re: CVE Request: arj: symlink directory traversal and directory traversal via //multiple/leading/slash (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201612-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150103 CVE Request: arj: symlink directory traversal and directory traversal via //multiple/leading/slash (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-5524 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-3213 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-5603 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 71895 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774435 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0570 (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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