RUSTSEC-2026-0368: zip: `ZipArchive::extract` creates symbolic links whose attacker-controlled targets are outside the destination directory
14 affectedIn zip 9.0.0-pre2, ZipArchive::extract creates a symbolic link from an archive entry after validating only the output entry path. The link target bytes are passed directly to the platform symlink API, so a malicious archive can create an entry inside the destination that resolves to an attacker-chosen path outside it. This behavior was verified on macOS and Linux. On either platform, a subsequent application read or write through that extracted entry accesses the external target with the extracting process's permissions.
For further details see: https://github.com/zip-rs/zip2/security/advisories/GHSA-4v9h-p7m9-rh26
Affected Packages
zip 5.1.1
czkawka-cli 12.0.2-2
zip 5.1.1
czkawka-gui 12.0.2-1
zip 5.1.1
doxx 0.1.4+dfsg-1+b1
zip 5.1.1
feluda 1.17.0-1
zip 5.1.1
grcov 0.10.7-1+b1
zip 5.1.1
icu4x-datagen 2.2.0-1+b2
affected
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librust-zip-dev 5.1.1+dfsg-1
zip 5.1.1
miniserve 0.35.0-5+b2
zip 5.1.1
ognibuild 0.2.19-2+b2
zip 5.1.1
sccache 0.17.0+ds-3+b2
zip 5.1.1
tealdeer 1.9.0-1+b2
zip 5.1.1
ty 0.0.85+ruff0.16.10+ds-1
zip 5.1.1
wasm-pack 0.15.0+ds-2+b2
zip 5.1.1
xleak 0.2.6+dfsg-1+b1