CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-1000026
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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
Chef Software's mixlib-archive versions 0.3.0 and older are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using ".." in tar archive entries
Affected configurations
• progress mixlib-archive (<= 0.3.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/chef/mixlib-archive/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/chef/mixlib-archive/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md Release Notes, Third Party Advisory