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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2026-43616 Detail

Description

Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  VulnCheck
CVSS-B 6.8 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee VulnCheck
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69 VulnCheck
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.21 VulnCheck
https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy VulnCheck
https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259 VulnCheck
https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/detect-it-easy-path-traversal-arbitrary-file-write VulnCheck

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal VulnCheck  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-43616
NVD Published Date:
05/04/2026
NVD Last Modified:
05/05/2026
Source:
VulnCheck