Medium severity · published Feb 9, 2022
CVE-2022-0530
A flaw was found in Unzip
5.5
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in Unzip. The vulnerability occurs during the conversion of a wide string to a local string that leads to a heap of out-of-bound write. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
macOS · Apple
11.0 before 11.6.6; 12.0.0 before 12.4 · source: NVD
UN
unzip ·
6.0 · source: vendor, NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
35 · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
10.15 before 10.15.7; 10.15.7; 10.15.7; 10.15.7; 10.15.7; 10.15.7; +10 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0530
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0530
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/May/33
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/May/35
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/May/38
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051395
Exploit
https://github.com/ByteHackr/unzip_poc
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00028.html
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