CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-38511
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-10
- 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-59
Description
An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.
Affected configurations
• tar project tar (< 0.4.36)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory