Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.
Title Detect-It-Easy < 3.21 Path Traversal Arbitrary File Write
Weaknesses CWE-23
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-04T19:39:05.720Z

Reserved: 2026-05-01T18:22:45.639Z

Link: CVE-2026-43616

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-04T19:38:58.358Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-04T18:16:32.830

Modified: 2026-05-04T18:16:32.830

Link: CVE-2026-43616

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-04T19:43:49Z