CVE-2019-17582: Libzip

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use-after-free in the _zip_dirent_read function of zip_dirent.c in libzip 1.2.0 allows attackers to have an unspecified impact by attempting to unzip a malformed ZIP archive. NOTE: the discoverer states "This use-after-free is triggered prior to the double free reported in CVE-2017-12858."

Affected products

• Libzip Libzip: version 1.2.0 only

Published 2021-02-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.