CVE-2004-0916: Cabextract Project Cabextract

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in cabextract before 1.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a cabinet file containing .. (dot dot) sequences in a filename.

Affected products

• Cabextract Project Cabextract: version 0.2 only; version 0.6 only; version 1.0 only

Published 2005-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.