Never trust a pre-extraction check. You must validate the destination path of every file at the exact moment it is being written to the disk.
This isn't just a theoretical trick. Researchers have shown that even modern AI models like GPT-4 or Claude can generate code that is vulnerable to these "schizophrenic" archives if they use outdated libraries or inconsistent parsing methods. File: Schizophrenia.zip ...
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If the "Checker" and the "Extractor" use different libraries (like ZipFile vs ZipInputStream in Java), they might interpret the ZIP's internal headers differently. File: Schizophrenia.zip ...