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HistoryOct 24, 2017 - 6:33 p.m.

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

2017-10-2418:33:36
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14

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

55.6%

Versions of tar prior to 2.0.0 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because tar does not verify that extracted symbolic links to not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.0.0 or later