CVE-2026-105840 [HIGH] – lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the lrz receive utility’s r

lrzsz before 0.13.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the lrz receive utility’s restricted mode that allows malicious ZMODEM senders to write files outside the current directory using absolute pathnames. Because checkpath() in src/lrz.c only rejects ‘../’ sequences unless built with –enable-pubdir, attackers can send files named with absolute paths to overwrite any file writable by the receiving user.