CVE-2022-0529Medium· 5.5▾ TwilightPoC availableA flaw was found in Unzip. The vulnerability occurs during the conversion of a wide string to a local string that leads to a heap of out-of-bound write. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a cra…
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 30.3 · likelihood 0.5 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via NVD
Last analysed / modified upstream
2.4%
2 GitHub repos (last check)
A flaw was found in Unzip. The vulnerability occurs during the conversion of a wide string to a local string that leads to a heap of out-of-bound write. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.
unzip = 6.0enterprise_linux = 8.0fedora = 35debian_linux = 10.0debian_linux = 11.0Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
CVE-2022-0530Medium· 5.5A flaw was found in Unzip
RUSTSEC-2026-0296None`unzip` is unmaintained
RUSTSEC-2026-0297None`unzip`: archive extraction is vulnerable to path traversal (zip-slip)
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