jaredallard archives 1.0.0 Archive path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in jaredallard archives 1.0.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Archive Handler. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-64346. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in jaredallard archives 1.0.0. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Archive Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-64346 since 10/30/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

• jaredallard

Name

• archives

Version

• 1.0.0

Website

• Product: https://github.com/jaredallard/archives/

CPE 2.3info

• 🔒

CPE 2.2info

• 🔒

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

Discussion