LIVE · cybersecurity feed
Live wire
ASOS Breach Reveals the Risks in Customer-Facing SaaSUnpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine cryptoAI Training Critical as Governance Challenges GrowUS Disrupts Chinese State-Sponsored Hacking ToolsCitrix warns admins to patch new NetScaler RCE flaw immediatelyCisco Patches a Dozen Critical VulnerabilitiesCisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeoverCVE-2026-21589 · Exploitation attempts against critical Atlassian flaw have begun (CVE-2026-21589)Cyber experts call on CISA to create mandatory federal OT rulesGremlin Foresight AI finds system weaknesses and verifies the fixes
cve recordhigh

CVE-2026-56876

max-mapper · extract-zip

Published
CVSS8.1
Severityhigh
WeaknessCWE-22
ExploitedNot in CISA KEV

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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 '../../../../etc/passwd', 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.

References

← Back to the CVE Tracker

Our coverage of CVE-2026-56876

No stories yet. This page updates automatically when we publish reporting that references CVE-2026-56876.