CVE-2026-14966

lowCVSS 3.1covered by 1 sourcefirst seen 2026-07-08

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.

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Exploitation outlook

Low exploitation risk0.29% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 21% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.

Advisory coverage (1)

lowCVE-2026-14966: BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for…nvd · 2026-07-08

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