Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-1000026

Title: Progress Mixlib-Archive Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-1000026.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Jul 17, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-1000026: Chef Software's mixlib-archive versions 0.3.0 and older are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using ".." in tar archive entries

Impacted Vendors

progress 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/chef/mixlib-archive/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/chef/mixlib-archive/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns