Description
BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted during a scan (for example via filedownload), bypassed the guard and caused an attacker-controlled symlink to be written into the extraction directory. The effect is limited to planting the symlink (its target is not written through), and only hosts using such a legacy p7zip build are affected; current mainline 7-Zip is not.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Lantern Security | BBOT | 2.3.1 – ≤ 2.8.6 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | bbot | >= 2.3.1, < 3.0.0 | 3.0.0 | GHSA-xpf3-p7gm-7756 |