CVE-2010-2800: Cabextract Project Cabextract

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MS-ZIP decompressor in cabextract before 1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a malformed MSZIP archive in a .cab file during a (1) test or (2) extract action, related to the libmspack library.

Affected products

• Cabextract Project Cabextract: up to and including 1.2; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …

Published 2010-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.