CVE-2001-1270 — Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .

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Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .

Published May 3, 2002

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.58%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the console version of PKZip (pkzipc) 4.00 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction with the -rec (recursive) option via a .. (dot dot) attack on the archived files.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.58% 0.00579

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00579

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.58% (0.00579)	45.66th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.58% (0.00579)	42.86th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.20% (0.00196)	39.53th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	14.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 9, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	12.69th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00044)	10.67th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories/archdt.asp
x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/196445		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.security.nnov.ru/advisories/archdt.asp		x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 3, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved May 1, 2002

Link CVE-2001-1270

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-1270

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-1270