CVE-2026-14966
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.
Published:Jul 8, 2026
Last Modified:Aug 19, 2026
EPS:Jul 8, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00291
CVSS Score:3.1
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Black Lantern Security
Product
Bbot
Black Lantern Security
Bbot
Vendor
Blacklanternsecurity
Product
Bbot
Blacklanternsecurity
Bbot
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
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
