Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects Across Multiple Ecosystems

Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects Across Multiple Ecosystems

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zip-slip-vulnerability-affects-thousands-of-projects-across-multiple-ecosystems/

Security researchers have disclosed today details about a critical vulnerability impacting open source coding libraries that handle archived files.

Discovered by the researchers from Synk, the "Zip Slip" vulnerability is an issue in the way coders, plugins, and libraries have implemented the process of decompressing an archived file.