Arbitrary File Overwrite Affecting borgbackup package, versions [,1.0.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-BORGBACKUP-40371
  • published11 Dec 2016
  • disclosed11 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-10100  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

borgbackup is a backup tool.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. BorgBackup before 1.0.9 has a flaw in the way duplicate archive names were processed during manifest recovery, potentially allowing an attacker to overwrite an archive.

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