archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal · CVE-2016-10173 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 5, 2023

Package

archive-tar-minitar (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 0.5.2

Patched versions

0.5.2

minitar (RubyGems)

< 0.6

0.6

Description

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Sep 5, 2023

Severity

High

7.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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