CVE-2026-44788: SharpCompress has directory traversal via directory entries in WriteToDirectory (zip slip variant)

May 8, 2026

A path traversal vulnerability in IArchive.WriteToDirectory() allows a malicious archive to create directories outside the intended extraction root. For TAR archives, this can be escalated to arbitrary file writes by chaining with a symlink entry, giving a full write primitive on the target filesystem subject to the permissions of the running process.

References

github.com/adamhathcock/sharpcompress/security/advisories/GHSA-6c8g-7p36-r338
github.com/advisories/GHSA-6c8g-7p36-r338
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44788

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