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CVE-2026-22184

high CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.4%

zlib versions up to and including 1.3.1.2 include a global buffer overflow in the untgz utility located under contrib/untgz. The vulnerability is limited to the standalone demonstration utility and does not affect the core zlib compression library. The flaw occurs when a user executes the untgz command with an excessively long archive name supplied via the command line, leading to an out-of-bounds write in a fixed-size global buffer.

Versions it affects

Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-22184 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
High
CVSS base score
7.8 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-120
Published
2026-01-07

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