Medium 5.5Published Feb 9, 2022

CVE-2022-0529A flaw was found in Unzip.

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 2:30 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

A flaw was found in Unzip. The vulnerability occurs during the conversion of a wide string to a local string that leads to a heap of out-of-bound write. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted zip file, leading to a crash or code execution.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: redhat
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

unzip_project unzip unzip_project:unzip	6.0	NVD
redhat enterprise_linux redhat:enterprise_linux	8.0	NVD
fedoraproject fedora fedoraproject:fedora	35	NVD
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux	10.0; 11.0	NVD

References

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2051395	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/ByteHackr/unzip_poc	x-refsource-misc
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5202	vendor-advisory, x-refsource-debian
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00028.html	mailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-17

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