An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times, access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system.
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"modified": "2024-11-21T06:05:55.217Z",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2021-31566",
"imported": "2025-11-25T21:58:26.862Z",
"published": "2022-08-23T16:15:09.337Z",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31566",
"id": "CVE-2021-31566"
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