CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-20835

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-04-30 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-04-30
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])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A vulnerability was found in tar-fs before 1.16.2. An Arbitrary File Overwrite issue exists when extracting a tarball containing a hardlink to a file that already exists on the system, in conjunction with a later plain file with the same name as the hardlink. This plain file content replaces the existing file content.

Affected configurations

• tar-fs project tar-fs (< 1.16.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References