github - ghsa-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v

ghsa-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v

Vulnerability from github

Published

2017-10-24 18:33

Modified

2021-09-10 20:53

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Summary

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

Details

Versions of tar prior to 2.0.0 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because tar does not verify that extracted symbolic links to not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.0.0 or later

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  "modified": "2021-09-10T20:53:22Z",
  "published": "2017-10-24T18:33:36Z",
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CVE-2015-8860 (GCVE-0-2015-8860)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-01-23 21:00

Modified

2024-08-06 08:29

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

References

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URL

Tags

	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/57	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

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

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