CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-20990

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-08-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-08-26
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-59

Description

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive.

Affected configurations

• tar project tar (< 0.4.16)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References