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ghsa-62jx-8vmh-4mcw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2021-08-25 20:58

Modified

2023-06-13 22:04

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Summary

Links in archive can create arbitrary directories

Details

When unpacking a tarball that contains a symlink the tar crate may create directories outside of the directory it's supposed to unpack into. The function errors when it's trying to create a file, but the folders are already created at this point.

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  "modified": "2023-06-13T22:04:07Z",
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CVE-2021-38511 (GCVE-0-2021-38511)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-08-10 22:12

Modified

2024-08-04 01:44

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

References

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URL

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	https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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