CVE-2001-1268: Info-Zip Unzip

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Info-ZIP UnZip 5.42 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a .. (dot dot) in an extracted filename.

Affected products

• Info-Zip Unzip: up to and including 5.42

Published 2001-07-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.