The vulnerability centers on insecure path handling during KAR archive extraction. Based on: 1) CVE description specifying processing of 'repository/' and 'resources/' entries 2) Standard Zip-slip vulnerability patterns involving zip entry name validation 3) Karaf's architecture where KarDeployer handles KAR file deployment. The extractResources and extractRepository methods are explicitly mentioned in the vulnerability description as processing vulnerable paths. The writeEntry method (likely an inner class method) would be responsible for the actual file write operations using untrusted paths. These functions would appear in stack traces during malicious KAR file processing as they handle the path concatenation and file write operations without validation in vulnerable versions.