SharpCompress is a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats. In 0.47.4 and earlier, a path traversal vulnerability in IArchive.WriteToDirectory() allows a malicious archive to create directories outside the intended extraction root. For TAR archives, this can be escalated to arbitrary file writes by chaining with a symlink entry, giving a full write primitive on the target filesystem subject to the permissions of the running process.
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Description SharpCompress is a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats. In 0.47.4 and earlier, a path traversal vulnerability in IArchive.WriteToDirectory() allows a malicious archive to create directories outside the intended extraction root. For TAR archives, this can be escalated to arbitrary file writes by chaining with a symlink entry, giving a full write primitive on the target filesystem subject to the permissions of the running process.
Title SharpCompress: Directory traversal via directory entries in WriteToDirectory (zip slip variant)
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-26T21:32:00.845Z

Reserved: 2026-05-07T19:20:44.691Z

Link: CVE-2026-44788

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-26T22:16:42.587

Modified: 2026-05-26T22:16:42.587

Link: CVE-2026-44788

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Updated: 2026-05-26T22:30:18Z