Arbitrary File Overwrite Affecting tar-fs package, versions <1.16.2
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.2% (58th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-TARFS-174556
- published 1 May 2019
- disclosed 30 Apr 2019
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 30 Apr 2019
CVE-2018-20835 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade tar-fs to version 1.16.2 or higher.
Overview
tar-fs is a filesystem bindings for tar-stream.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. An attacker can overwrite files on the system when extracting a tarball containing a hardlink to a file that already exists on the system, in conjunction with a later plain file with the same name as the hardlink. This plain file content replaces the existing file content.
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