CVE-2013-0296: Zlib Pigz

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in pigz before 2.2.5 uses permissions derived from the umask when compressing a file before setting that file's permissions to match those of the original file, which might allow local users to bypass intended access permissions while compression is occurring.

Affected products

• Zlib Pigz: up to and including 2.2.4-1

Published 2014-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.