Symlink File Overwrite Affecting tar package, versions >0.0.1 <2.0.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (57th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID npm:tar:20151103
- published 6 Nov 2015
- disclosed 3 Nov 2015
- credit Tim Cuthbertson
Introduced: 3 Nov 2015
CVE-2015-8860 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade tar to version 2.0.0 or higher.
Overview
tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink File Overwrite. It does not properly normalize symbolic links pointing to targets outside the extraction root. As a result, packages may hold symbolic links to parent and sibling directories and overwrite those files when the package is extracted.
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