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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-76845 EUVD-2026-64851GHSA-vwc7-r8mq-g2x9

adm-zip 0.5.9 through 0.6.0 Arbitrary File Overwrite via Symlink Following on Extraction

Published Aug 24, 2026 · Updated Aug 24, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

adm-zip 0.5.9 through 0.6.0 follows symbolic links at the extraction destination. Utils.sanitize in util/utils.js enforces containment by comparing only the string form of an archive entry name against the resolved extraction root, and Utils.writeFileTo opens the computed destination with fs.openSync(path, "w", 0o666), which resolves symbolic links and carries neither O_NOFOLLOW nor a pre-write fs.lstatSync check. When a path component at the destination already exists as a symbolic link pointing outside the extraction root, extractAllTo, extractAllToAsync and extractEntryTo write the entry contents through that link and then chmod its target, placing attacker-controlled content in a file outside the root without any traversal sequence appearing in the archive. Reaching the write requires overwrite to be enabled, because the preceding fs.existsSync check also resolves the link and otherwise declines. An attacker able to create a symbolic link inside a shared, reused or predictable extraction directory, such as a temporary directory or a continuous integration workspace, can overwrite any file the extracting process is permitted to write.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cthackers adm-zip 0.5.9 – ≤ 0.6.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling renovate 44.101.3-r0 —
Wolfi rolling saf 1.7.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling sqlpad 7.5.7-r41 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm adm-zip >= 0.5.9, <= 0.6.0 — GHSA-vwc7-r8mq-g2x9

References