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BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it fa

BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted during a scan (for example via filedownload), bypassed the guard and caused an attacker-controlled symlink to be written into the extraction directory. The effect is limited to planting the symlink (its tar

CVE-2026-14966Published 1 month agoUpdated 6 days agoSource: OSV

Affected packages

bbot— 2.3.1 → 3.0.0

Exploit signal

Known exploited (CISA KEV): No
EPSS score: —
EPSS percentile: —

EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.

Sources

https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/bbot/commit/a3f1a2292e2b0a553827c6175b761abe28807735

Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-3719

Recommended response stack

Snyk — Scan your dependencies in CI and fix this vulnerability.→Socket — Detect malicious and compromised packages before they ship.→

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