CVE-2010-2801: Cabextract Project Cabextract

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in the Quantum decompressor in cabextract before 1.3, when archive test mode is used, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Quantum archive in a .cab file, 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.