CVE-2018-1002200: Codehaus-Plexus Plexus-Archiver

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 11.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

plexus-archiver before 3.6.0 is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing attackers to write to arbitrary files via a ../ (dot dot slash) in an archive entry that is mishandled during extraction. This vulnerability is also known as 'Zip-Slip'.

Affected products

• Codehaus-Plexus Plexus-Archiver: before 3.6.0 (fixed in 3.6.0)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.