archives is a Go library for extracting archives (tar, zip, etc.). Version 1.0.0 does not prevent a malicious user to feed a specially crafted archive to the library causing RCE, modification of files or other malignancies in the context of whatever the user is running this library as, through the program that imports it. Severity depends on user permissions, environment and how arbitrary archives are passed. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.1.
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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-j95m-rcjp-q69h github.com/jaredallard/archives Has Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:45:00 +0000

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Description archives is a Go library for extracting archives (tar, zip, etc.). Version 1.0.0 does not prevent a malicious user to feed a specially crafted archive to the library causing RCE, modification of files or other malignancies in the context of whatever the user is running this library as, through the program that imports it. Severity depends on user permissions, environment and how arbitrary archives are passed. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.1.
Title archives: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-07T05:32:09.605Z

Reserved: 2025-10-30T17:40:52.031Z

Link: CVE-2025-64346

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-11-07T06:15:33.850

Modified: 2025-11-07T06:15:33.850

Link: CVE-2025-64346

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