CVE-2026-78299

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Sep 14, 2026
Updated: Sep 14, 2026
Reserved: Aug 24, 2026

Description

In Eclipse Embedded CDT versions 6.0 to 6.7 if the CMSIS-Pack archive extracts a compromised CMSIS pack the archive extraction can extract files to locations outside of the pack, allowing writing of arbitrary files to other locations on disk.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Eclipse Embedded CDT (C/C++ Development Tools)Eclipse Foundation	before 6.0.0Unknown 6.0.0 to before 6.8.0Affected

References

https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/work_items/747
https://github.com/eclipse-embed-cdt/eclipse-plugins/security/advisories/GHSA-qch4-8rmp-mjx3

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