CVE-2026-43616

MEDIUM EPSS 6.4%
Published May 4, 20261mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
6.8 CVSS 4.0
Medium
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Published May 4, 2026 1mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.

CVSS Details

Base Score
6.8
Exploitability
—
Impact
—
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/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 Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction A
Scope X

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
6.4% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-23

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
horsicqdetect-it-easy* <3.21

References 7

  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.21
    Release Notes
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
    Product
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc
    Patch
  • vulncheck.com https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/detect-it-easy-path-traversal-arbitrary-file-write
    Third Party Advisory

Remediation

  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259
    Patch
  • github.com https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc
    Patch