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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2025-64346 EUVD-2025-8630GHSA-j95m-rcjp-q69hGO-2025-3581

archives: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Published Nov 7, 2025 · Updated Nov 7, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

archives is a Go library for extracting archives (tar, zip, etc.). Version 1.0.0 does not prevent a malicious user to feed a specially crafted archive to the library causing RCE, modification of files or other malignancies in the context of whatever the user is running this library as, through the program that imports it. Severity depends on user permissions, environment and how arbitrary archives are passed. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
jaredallard archives < 1.0.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/jaredallard/archives < 1.0.1 1.0.1 GHSA-j95m-rcjp-q69h

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