Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pax  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2504-PAX-9830991
  • published26 Apr 2025
  • disclosed21 Jan 2015

Introduced: 21 Jan 2015

CVE-2015-1193  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pax package and not the pax package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pax 1:20140703 allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a (1) full pathname or (2) .. (dot dot) in an archive.