CVE-2022-48285 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.3) Path Traversal vulnerability in jszip. A fix is available for jszip — see the affected versions and patch details below.
JSZip contains Path Traversal via loadAsync
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2022-48285.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
jszipnpmDescription
loadAsync in JSZip before 3.8.0 allows Directory Traversal via a crafted ZIP archive.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | jszip | all versions | 3.8.0npm install jszip@3.8.0 |
Affected Products
jszipjszip_projectDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for jszip, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update jszip to 3.8.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2022-48285 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.7 | rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8:v1.7.8-5 | RHSA-2023:1428 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2022-48285 in your dependencies?
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