GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3

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    GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 16 Feb 2024

    Summary: archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal

    Details: Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a `..` (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10173, https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16, https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4, https://github.com/halostatue/minitar, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32, https://web.archive.org/web/20170214020917/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874, https://web.archive.org/web/20201207111726/https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173, http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: archive-tar-minitar

    Purl: pkg:gem/archive-tar-minitar

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.5.2

    Affected versions

    0.5.1

    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