Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.5)

Path Traversal in Gzip Extraction (CWE-36) Affecting SecureDrop Client sd-app VM

CVE-2026-35465

Published:

Apr 17, 2026

Status:

Analyzed

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

NDV

Vulnerability Type

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Path Traversal / Insecure File Write

CWE:

CWE-36;CWE-73

Impact:

Remote Code Execution via Malicious Archive Overwrite

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.5)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Path Traversal / Insecure File Write

CWE:

CWE-36;CWE-73

Impact:

Remote Code Execution via Malicious Archive Overwrite

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(7.5)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Catch This CVE While Code Is Being Written

Detect vulnerable code directly in pull requests, so CVEs are fixed before merge.