Path Traversal in SharpCompress (CVE-2021-39208)
Summary
Path traversal in SharpCompress (CVE-2021-39208). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.29 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
SharpCompress recreates a hierarchy of directories under destinationDirectory if ExtractFullPath is set to true in options. In order to prevent extraction outside the destination directory the destinationFileName path is verified to begin with fullDestinationDirectoryPath. However it is not enforced that fullDestinationDirectoryPath ends with slash:
public static void WriteEntryToDirectory(IEntry entry,
string destinationDirectory,
ExtractionOptions? options,
Action write)
{
string destinationFileName;
string file = Path.GetFileName(entry.Key);
string fullDestinationDirectoryPath = Path.GetFullPath(destinationDirectory);
...
throw new ExtractionException("Entry is trying to write a file outside of the destination directory.");
}
If the destinationDirectory is not slash terminated like /home/user/dir it is possible to create a file with a name thats begins as the destination directory one level up from the directory, i.e. /home/user/dir.sh.
Impact
Because of the file name and destination directory constraints the arbitrary file creation impact is limited and depends on the use case.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Auto-generated summary
Assembled by SecPulse from the source data (CVSS, CWE, affected versions) using templates — no AI involved. Check the original description and references below for exact details.
A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-39208 has been found in SharpCompress.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade SharpCompress to 0.29 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "SharpCompress CVE-2021-39208" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2021-39208 (SharpCompress) — CWE-22
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 0.29 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Path traversal (CWE-22) exists in SharpCompress.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of SharpCompress.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.29.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'SharpCompress' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
-
1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'SharpCompress' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
SharpCompressを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade SharpCompress to 0.29ステージング環境で 0.29 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
-
3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com