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Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 3, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a tar file whose filenames contain a .. (dot dot).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2001
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 3, 2022
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2001-1267

GHSA ID

GHSA-p23r-j983-4557

Source code

No known source code

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