Is CVE-2026-14966 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-14966?

CVE-2026-14966 has a CVSS v3 severity of LOW (3.1).

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CVE-2026-14966

Description

BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an archive, downloaded and extracted during a scan (for example via filedownload), bypassed the guard and caused an attacker-controlled symlink to be written into the extraction directory. The effect is limited to planting the symlink (its target is not written through), and only hosts using such a legacy p7zip build are affected; current mainline 7-Zip is not.