Symlink Attack

Overview bbot is an OSINT automation for hackers. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the unarchive process when extracting zip or 7z archives containing symlink entries with a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. An...

CVE-2026-14966

BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted...

CVE-2026-14966 Symlink guard bypass in unarchive module allows planting symlinks during extraction

BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted...

PT-2026-56471

BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted...