CVE-2023-46122

Summary

CVE-2023-46122 is a vulnerability affecting sbt, a build tool for Scala, Java, and other languages. This issue enables an attacker to write arbitrary files, including potentially overwriting `/root/.ssh/authorized_keys`, by supplying a maliciously crafted zip or JAR file to the `IO.unzip` function. This vulnerability can be found in sbt's `pullRemoteCache` task and `Resolvers.remote`, as well as in many custom tasks where developers directly use `IO.unzip`. This security flaw has been addressed in version 1.9.7 of sbt.

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