GHSA-xpf3-p7gm-7756LowCVSS 3.1

BBOT's Symlink guard bypass in unarchive module allows planting symlinks during extraction

Published
October 14, 2026
Last Modified
October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/bbot:>= 2.3.1, < 3.0.0

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