CVE-2026-44788
MEDIUM WAF: High
CVSS 6.5
Published: 2026-05-26
CWE-22
SharpCompress is a fully managed C# library to deal with many compression types and formats. In 0.47.4 and earlier, a path traversal vulnerability in IArchive.WriteToDirectory() allows a malicious archive to create directories outside the intended extraction root. For TAR archives, this can be escalated to arbitrary file writes by chaining with a symlink entry, giving a full write primitive on the target filesystem subject to the permissions of the running process.
WAF Coverage Analysis
Path Traversal
High WAF Coverage
OWASP: A01:2021 Broken Access Control
930xxx - Local File Inclusion
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| adamhathcock | sharpcompress | up to 0.47.4 |
References
- github.com (Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)