CVE-2026-62843

Summary The fix for GHSA-gxjx-7m74-hcq8 / CVE-2026-54093 (shipped in v2.63.6) added a strings.ReplaceAll(nameInArchive, "\\", "/") step to the archive builder; this was the advisory's recommended "Primary Fix." On a Linux host a backslash is a legal, non-separator filename character, so replacing it with the real POSIX separator / manufactures a /-delimited traversal sequence out of a benign single file name. The fix neutralized the Windows-only vector but reintroduced the same class of bug on POSIX systems, and the advisory's "Secondary Mitigation" (reject backslash filenames at creation time) was never implemented, so the malicious file can still be planted. A file named ..\..\evil.sh, one ordinary regular file on a Linux server, is emitted into generated zip/tar archives as the entry ../../evil.sh. Any user with upload (Create) permission can plant such a file; when anyone later downloads the containing folder as an archive and extracts it, the entry escapes the extraction directory on the victim's machine. The original advisory's own payload ..\..\..\Windows\System32\evil.txt now becomes ../../../Windows/System32/evil.txt, which, unlike before the fix, also traverses on Linux and macOS extractors. The fix turned a Windows-only zip-slip into a cross-platform one. Details 1. The archive builder rewrites backslashes into path separators (http/raw.go:133) nameInArchive := strings.TrimPrefix(path, commonPath) nameInArchive = strings.TrimPrefix(nameInArchive, string(filepath.Separator)) nameInArchive = filepath.ToSlash(nameInArchive) // line 127, host separator only // ... comment explaining the intent to strip Windows separators ... nameInArchive = strings.ReplaceAll(nameInArchive, "\\", "/") // line 133, creates traversal filepath.ToSlash only rewrites the host separator, so on Linux a stored backslash survives until this explicit ReplaceAll. Replacing \ with the real separator / produces traversal rather than neutralizing it. 2. The rewritten name is used ve

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