CVE-2020-12265

PoC —

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

2%p81

Published

Apr 26, 2020 (Apr 26, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The decompress package before 4.2.1 for Node.js is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via ../ in an archive member, when a symlink is used, because of Directory Traversal.

Vendors: decompress project
Products: decompress
Weakness: CWE-22, CWE-59
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.1%)

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