CVE-2025-11569: Withdrawn Advisory: cross-zip is vulnerable to Directory Traversal through selective use of zip/unzip operations

October 10, 2025 (updated October 20, 2025)

Withdrawn Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it does not discuss a valid vulnerability. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

All versions of the package cross-zip are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via consecutive usage of zipSync() and unzipSync () functions that allow arguments such as __dirname. An attacker can access system files by selectively doing zip/unzip operations.

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