6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.02 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.9%
Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in
src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite
arbitrary files via certain //… (slash slash dot dot) sequences in
directory symlinks in a TAR archive.