Description
sbt is a build tool for Scala, Java, and others. Given a specially crafted zip or JAR file, `IO.unzip` allows writing of arbitrary file. This would have potential to overwrite `/root/.ssh/authorized_keys`. Within sbt's main code, `IO.unzip` is used in `pullRemoteCache` task and `Resolvers.remote`; however many projects use `IO.unzip(...)` directly to implement custom tasks. This vulnerability has been patched in version 1.9.7.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/sbt/io/commit/124538348db0713c80793cb57b915f97ec13188a
https://github.com/sbt/io/issues/358
https://github.com/sbt/io/pull/360
https://github.com/sbt/sbt/security/advisories/GHSA-h9mw-grgx-2fhf
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