CVE-2006-3178: Jed Wing Chm Lib

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in extract_chmLib example program in CHM Lib (chmlib) before 0.38 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a CHM archive containing files with a .. (dot dot) in their filename.

Affected products

• Jed Wing Chm Lib: up to and including 0.37

Published 2006-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.