Important: plexus-archiver

Issue Overview:

A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in plexus-archiver when extracting a carefully crafted zip file which holds path traversal file names. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to write files outside the target directory and overwrite existing files with malicious code or vulnerable configurations.(CVE-2018-1002200)

Affected Packages:

plexus-archiver

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update plexus-archiver to update your system.

New Packages:

noarch:  
    plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.amzn2.noarch  
    plexus-archiver-javadoc-2.4.2-5.amzn2.noarch  
  
src:  
    plexus-archiver-2.4.2-5.amzn2.src  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-1002200

Mitre: CVE-2018-1002200