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CVE-2001-1269 — LOW severity vulnerability (Info-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrit)

Info-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via filenames in the archive that begin with the '/' (slash) character.

CVE IDCVE-2001-1269
SeverityLOW
CVSS score2.1
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2001-07-12
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionInfo-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via filenames in the archive that begin with the '/' (slash) character.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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