Vulnerability GHSA-xpf3-p7gm-7756

Low Risk
LOW RISK
CVSS Score: 3.1
Score Range: < 4.0
Low severity vulnerabilities (CVSS < 4.0). Hygiene issues that can accumulate but pose lower immediate risk.
9 hours ago
October 14, 2026 at 07:34 PM UTC
BBOT's Symlink guard bypass in unarchive module allows planting symlinks during extraction
2.3.1 - 2.8.6
2.3.1 - 2.8.6

Summary

BBOT's Symlink guard bypass in unarchive module allows planting symlinks during extraction

Details

BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted during a scan (for example via filedownload), bypassed the guard and caused an attacker-controlled symlink to be written into the extraction directory. The effect is limited to planting the symlink (its target is not written through), and only hosts using such a legacy p7zip build are affected; current mainline 7-Zip is not.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
9 hours ago
October 14, 2026 at 07:34 PM UTC
Fixed (3.0.0)
3 months ago
July 08, 2026 at 03:02 PM UTC
Last Modified
9 hours ago
October 14, 2026 at 07:55 PM UTC