TI-2023-00562 Aliases CVE-2023-0593 GHSA-ppwj-pqwg-cmvw

Path traversal in yaffshiv

MEDIUM 58CWE-22Published 2023-01-31 · Updated 2025-03-27

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · High · None
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

A path traversal vulnerability affects yaffshiv YAFFS filesystem extractor. By crafting a malicious YAFFS file, an attacker could force yaffshiv to write outside of the extraction directory. This issue affects yaffshiv up to version 0.1 included, which is the most recent at time of publication.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00354 29th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
devttys0	yaffshiv	up to 0.1	—	No fix listed	CNA

yaffshiv Vendordevttys0 Affected up to 0.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:yaffshiv_project:yaffshiv::::::::	up to 0.1	Vulnerable	Yaffshiv Project

cpe:2.3:a:yaffshiv_project:yaffshiv:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 0.1 Vulnerable ·Yaffshiv Project

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-0593
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ppwj-pqwg-cmvw

References

Exploit 1

https://onekey.com/blog/security-advisory-remote-command-execution-in-binwalk/

Patch 1

https://github.com/devttys0/yaffshiv/pull/3/files

Sources

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