CVE-2026-22184
zlib <= 1.3.1.2 untgz Global Buffer Overflow in TGZfname()
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 4.6EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
07 Jan 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
zlib software · zlibReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-22184https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2427688https://github.com/madler/zlibhttps://github.com/madler/zlib/issues/1142https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2026/Jan/3https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-22184.jsonhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zlib-untgz-global-buffer-overflow-in-tgzfnamehttps://zlib.net/