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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWg1ZzItMzh4OS00Z3Yz

archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: about 7 years ago
Updated: about 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3, CVE-2016-10173
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10173
• https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
• https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170214020917/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201207111726/https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3

Repository: https://github.com/halostatue/minitar
Blast Radius: 30.3

Affected Packages