Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-43616
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 24.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.1
References
- https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee
- https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69
- https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.21
- https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
- https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259
- https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/detect-it-easy-path-traversal-arbitrary-file-write
Products affected by CVE-2026-43616
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.51
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.52
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.57
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.59
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.60
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.61
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.62
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.63
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.64
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:0.65
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:2.00
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:2.01
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:2.02
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:2.03
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:2.04
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:2.05
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:2.06
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.00
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.01
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.02
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.03
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.04
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.05
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.06
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.07
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.08
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.09
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.10
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cpe:2.3:a:horsicq:detect-it-easy:3.20