Directory Traversal Affecting tar package, versions [1.14,1.29]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TAR-2319481
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed9 Dec 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-6321  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for tar.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the file_name parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER.

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