Various issues in bbot's unarchive.py allow a malicious site to cause bbot to write arbitrary files to arbitrary locations. This can be used to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE).
A user who uses bbot to scan a malicious webserver may have arbitrary code executed on their system.
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2025-10-09T22:22:11Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2025-10-09T16:15:44Z",
"severity": "CRITICAL",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22"
]
}