CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10173
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-01
- 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-22
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• minitar archive-tar-minitar (<= 0.5.2)
• minitar minitar (<= 0.5.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173 puppet.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173 puppet.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32 security.gentoo.org