CVE-2026-22184EPSS p31.8%
CVE-2026-22184CVE-2026-22184
zlib / zlib
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.39% probability of exploitation · percentile 31.8% · 2026-08-13T12:03:51Z |
| Last modified | 2026-07-15 |