CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8860

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-01-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

Affected configurations

• nodejs node.js (<= 1.8.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References