CVE-2022-36943: Ziparchive Project Ziparchive

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SSZipArchive versions 2.5.3 and older contain an arbitrary file write vulnerability due to lack of sanitization on paths which are symlinks. SSZipArchive will overwrite files on the filesystem when opening a malicious ZIP containing a symlink as the first item.

Affected products

• Ziparchive Project Ziparchive: up to and including 2.5.3

Published 2023-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.