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tar-utils Path Traversal vulnerability

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 28, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 30, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/whyrusleeping/tar-utils (Go)

Affected versions

< 0.0.0-20201201191210-20a61371de5b

Patched versions

0.0.0-20201201191210-20a61371de5b

Description

Due to improper path sanitization, archives containing relative file paths can cause files to be written (or overwritten) outside of the target directory.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 27, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 28, 2022
Reviewed Dec 30, 2022
Last updated Aug 30, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-36566

GHSA ID

GHSA-jpf8-h7h7-3ppm

Source code

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