Security Advisory

CVE-2026-40491

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-04-18 01:36:47

Last updated 2026-04-20 15:50:02

Assigner GitHub_M

State PUBLISHED

Description

gdown is a Google Drive public file/folder downloader. Versions prior to 5.2.2 are vulnerable to a Path Traversal attack within the extractall functionality. When extracting a maliciously crafted ZIP or TAR archive, the library fails to sanitize or validate the filenames of the archive members. This allow files to be written outside the intended destination directory, potentially leading to arbitrary file overwrite and Remote Code Execution (RCE). Version 5.2.2 contains a fix.

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