{"id":81129,"date":"2026-06-26T20:14:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-56876-extract-zip-unvalidated-symlink-path-traversal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:44:29","slug":"cve-2026-56876-extract-zip-unvalidated-symlink-path-traversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-56876-extract-zip-unvalidated-symlink-path-traversal\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-56876 &#8211; extract-zip unvalidated symlink path traversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-56876<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 26, 2026, 4:44 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :extract-zip does not validate symlink targets when extracting zip archives. When processing a malicious zip file containing a symlink with a relative path like &#8216;..\/..\/..\/..\/etc\/passwd&#8217;, extract-zip will extract the symlink without validation, allowing it to point outside the extraction directory. Depending on how extract-zip is used, an attacker could read or write to arbitrary files.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-56876 Published : June 26, 2026, 4:44 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour ago Description :extract-zip does not validate symlink targets when extracting zip archives. When processing a malicious zip file containing a symlink with a relative path like &#8216;..\/..\/..\/..\/etc\/passwd&#8217;, extract-zip will extract the symlink without validation, allowing it to point outside the extraction directory. Depending &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}