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MEDIUM CVSS 3.0
CVE-2018-1002200
Plexus-Archiver Zip-Slip Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Description

plexus-archiver before 3.6.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

INFO

Published Date :

July 25, 2018, 5:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 3:40 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2018-1002200 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Redhat enterprise_linux
2 Redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
3 Redhat enterprise_linux_workstation
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Codehaus-plexus plexus-archiver
: Total Affected Vendor : 3 | Products : 5
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
A directory traversal vulnerability exists in plexus-archiver, which could allow an attacker to write to arbitrary files.
  • Update the affected plexus-archiver package.
  • Update the affected libplexus-archiver-java package.
  • Upgrade the plexus-archiver packages.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2018-1002200 has a 6 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2018-1002200.

URL Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227 Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2018-1002200 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2018-1002200 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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shoucheng3/codehaus-plexus__plexus-archiver_CVE-2018-1002200_3-5

None

Java HTML Shell

Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago
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Born at : Aug. 19, 2025, 3:55 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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MYounas126/openmrs-core-security-analysis

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Dockerfile Java HTML XSLT Shell JavaScript CSS

Updated: 4 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 31, 2025, 7:15 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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mile9299/zip-slip-vulnerability

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Updated: 1 year, 7 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 10, 2024, 6:01 a.m. This repo has been linked 21 different CVEs too.
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jpbprakash/vuln

None

Updated: 1 year, 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 9, 2023, 5:44 p.m. This repo has been linked 21 different CVEs too.
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snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability

Zip Slip Vulnerability (Arbitrary file write through archive extraction)

security vulnerabilities

Updated: 1 day, 5 hours ago
789 stars 122 fork 122 watcher
Born at : April 18, 2018, 9:47 a.m. This repo has been linked 22 different CVEs too.
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Nadahar/external-maven-plugin

This is a fork of "Maven External Dependency Plugin", http://code.google.com/p/maven-external-dependency-plugin/. This Maven plugin allows downloading, installing, and deploying dependency artifacts that are not stored in a Maven repository.

Updated: 2 years, 2 months ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 28, 2015, 3:25 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2018-1002200 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2018-1002200 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837
    Added Reference https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8
    Added Reference https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87
    Added Reference https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability
    Added Reference https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability
    Added Reference https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 02, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:plexus-archiver_project:plexus-archiver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (excluding) 3.6.0 OR *cpe:2.3:a:codehaus-plexus:plexus-archiver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (excluding) 3.6.0
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE Snyk CWE-22
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 18, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability No Types Assigned https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680 No Types Assigned https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31680 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87 No Types Assigned https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/pull/87 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8 No Types Assigned https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver/commit/f8f4233508193b70df33759ae9dc6154d69c2ea8 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability No Types Assigned https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-22
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:plexus-archiver_project:plexus-archiver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.6.0
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 27, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4227 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1837 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1836 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 5.5
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 4.3
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

1.90 }} -1.37%

score

0.82390

percentile