High 7.1Published May 4, 2026

CVE-2026-43616Detect-It-Easy < 3.21 Path Traversal Arbitrary File Write

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 2:10 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Detect-It-Easy prior to 3.21 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem by crafting malicious archive entries with relative traversal sequences or absolute paths. Attackers can exploit insufficient path normalization during archive extraction to write files outside the intended extraction directory and achieve persistent code execution by overwriting user startup scripts.

CVSS: 7.1 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-23
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: VulnCheck
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jul 27, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

horsicq DIE-engine horsicq:die_engine (from the name)	before 3.21.0	CNA record
horsicq detect-it-easy horsicq:detect-it-easy	before 3.21	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/releases/tag/3.21	release-notes, patch
https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy	product
https://github.com/horsicq/Formats/commit/56cdf50ee3c72c56284e2819b23e98332842d259	patch
https://github.com/horsicq/XArchive/commit/6a2aa84c2fd120b704f76bb5c5ee3e9b5a7a0fcc	patch
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/cbbe1688e58ffd430d284bf65f336973f083db69	patch
https://github.com/horsicq/DIE-engine/commit/7fd300b926daf19707b2a36f0abe8b60a51308ee	patch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/detect-it-easy-path-traversal-arbitrary-file-write	third-party-advisory

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