MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-105840 (CVSS 7.7)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 6, 2026Risk 23/100
lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the lrz receive utility's restricted mode that allows malicious ZMODEM senders to write files outside the current directory using absolute pathnames. Because checkpath() in src/lrz.c only rejects '../' sequences unless built with --enable-pubdir, attackers can send files named with absolute paths to overwrite any file writable by the receiving user.
Technical details
CVSS
7.7
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:Passive
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