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CVE-2026-14966: 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-attribut

lowCVSS 3.1CVE-2026-14966
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.

Details

Source
NVD Recent CVEs (US · database · site)
Severity
low — CVSS 3.1
Published
2026-07-08
Last updated
2026-07-09
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-14966

Exploitation outlook

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Referenced CVEs

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CVE-2026-14966coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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