Name: CVE-2016-10173: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-02-01T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-10173, CWE-22, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.02922

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ruby-archive-tar-minitarUpgrade ruby-minitar	Feb 1, 2017	Jan 31, 2017
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade dev-ruby/archive-tar-minitar.	Oct 30, 2017	Feb 1, 2017
Suse	—	Upgrade ruby2.1-rubygem-archive-tar-minitar	Feb 10, 2017	Jan 31, 2017
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade ruby-minitarUpgrade ruby-archive-tar-minitar	Nov 19, 2024	Feb 1, 2017

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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