CVE-2002-1139

Publication date

2004-09-01 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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 users system, aka "Incorrect Target Path for Zipped File Decompression."