CVE-2026-43616 — Detect-It-Easy < 3.21 Path Traversal Arbitrary File Write
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 …
Published: 2026-05-04 · CVSS: 6.8 · CVSS 4.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7