CVE-2001-1270
Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .. (dot dot) attack on the archived files.
Published:Jul 12, 2001
Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
EPS:May 3, 2002
EPSS Score:0.00144
CVSS Score:2.1
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Pkware
Product
Pkzip
Pkware
Pkzip
Exploits
Common Weakness Enumeration
No CWE recorded yet
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
