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Description

SharpCompress is a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats. In 0.47.4 and earlier, a path traversal vulnerability in IArchive.WriteToDirectory() allows a malicious archive to create directories outside the intended extraction root. For TAR archives, this can be escalated to arbitrary file writes by chaining with a symlink entry, giving a full write primitive on the target filesystem subject to the permissions of the running process.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-07 | Published 2026-05-26 | Updated 2026-05-27 | Assigner GitHub_M




MEDIUM: 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Problem types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

<= 0.47.4
affected

References

github.com/...mpress/security/advisories/GHSA-6c8g-7p36-r338 exploit

github.com/...mpress/security/advisories/GHSA-6c8g-7p36-r338

cve.org (CVE-2026-44788)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-44788)

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