With Apache Ivy 2.4.0 an optional packaging attribute has been introduced that allows artifacts to be unpacked on the fly if they used
pack200 or zip packaging.

For artifacts using the "zip", "jar" or "war" packaging Ivy prior to version 2.5.1 doesn't verify the target path when extracting the archive. An archive containing absolute paths or paths that try to traverse "upwards" using ".." sequences can then write files to any location on
the local fie system that the user executing Ivy has write access to.

Ivy users of version 2.4.0 to 2.5.0 should upgrade to Ivy version 2.5.1.

Affected Packages

Maven org.apache.ivy:ivy

Affected versions: 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.5.1)

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-37865

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-94rr-4jr5-9h2p

Published

November 7, 2022 12:00 PM

Last Modified

May 2, 2025 9:58 PM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Maven

Primary Package

org.apache.ivy:ivy

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 28, 2025 6:37 AM

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