CVE-2021-38511

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    CVE-2021-38511

    Published: 10 Aug 2021Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

    References: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2587ead5ce8bf9378b010f9e7e305dd9aa602360

    Affected versions

    0.4.35
    0.4.34
    0.4.33
    0.4.32
    0.4.31
    0.4.30
    0.4.29
    0.4.28
    0.4.27
    0.4.26
    0.4.25
    0.4.24
    0.4.23
    0.4.22
    0.4.21
    0.4.20
    0.4.19
    0.4.18
    0.4.17
    0.4.16
    0.4.15
    0.4.14
    0.4.13
    0.4.12
    0.4.11
    0.4.10
    0.4.9
    0.4.8
    0.4.7
    0.4.6
    0.4.5
    0.4.4
    0.4.3
    0.4.2
    0.4.1
    0.4.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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