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Low · 3.1 CVE-2026-14966 EUVD-2026-42295GHSA-xpf3-p7gm-7756PYSEC-2026-3719

Symlink guard bypass in unarchive module allows planting symlinks during extraction

Published Jul 8, 2026 · Updated Jul 8, 2026 · Assigned by BLSOPS

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Black Lantern Security BBOT 2.3.1 – ≤ 2.8.6 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI bbot >= 2.3.1, < 3.0.0 3.0.0 GHSA-xpf3-p7gm-7756

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