Top Password ZIP Password Recovery 2.30 ZIP File Parser buffer overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Top Password ZIP Password Recovery 2.30. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component ZIP File Parser. Such manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2020-37193. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Top Password ZIP Password Recovery 2.30. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component ZIP File Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

ZIP Password Recovery 2.30 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by providing maliciously crafted input. Attackers can create a specially prepared text file with specific characters to trigger an application crash when selecting a ZIP file.

The weakness was published by ZwX as 47894. The advisory is shared for download at exploit-db.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-37193 since 02/10/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (47894). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Top Password

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• ZIP Password Recovery

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• 2.30

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