CVE-2002-1139

The Compressed Folders feature in Microsoft Windows 98 with Plus! Pack, Windows Me, and Windows XP does not properly check the destination folder during the decompression of ZIP files, which allows attackers to place an executable file in a known location on a user's system, aka "Incorrect Target Path for Zipped File Decompression."

Scoring

CVSS base score
0.81
EPSS probability
20.17%
Published
2004-09-01
Last modified
2026-03-16

Affected products

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