CVE-2024-47611

MEDIUM EPSS 49.4%
Published Oct 2, 20241y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
6.3 CVSS 4.0
Medium
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Published Oct 2, 2024 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. When built for native Windows (MinGW-w64 or MSVC), the command line tools from XZ Utils 5.6.2 and older have a command line argument injection vulnerability. If a command line contains Unicode characters (for example, filenames) that don't exist in the current legacy code page, the characters are converted to similar-looking characters with best-fit mapping. Some best-fit mappings result in ASCII characters that change the meaning of the command line, which can be exploited with malicious filenames to do argument injection or directory traversal attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.6.3. Command line tools built for Cygwin or MSYS2 are unaffected. liblzma is unaffected.

CVSS Details

Base Score
6.3
Exploitability
—
Impact
—
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope X

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
49.4% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 2

CWE-176
CWE-88

References 2

  • github.com https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/bf518b9ba446327a062ddfe67e7e0a5baed2394f
  • github.com https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/security/advisories/GHSA-m538-c5qw-3cg4

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.