CVE-2026-14966

LOW

Symlink guard bypass in unarchive module allows planting symlinks during extraction

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 3.1
EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 21.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
Black Lantern Security/BBOT 2.3.1 - 2.8.6
Published Jul 08, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 08, 2026