CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-12905

7.5 HIGH Published 2025-03-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-03-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
22e2d327-25fe-45d7-9f0c-dcd23b7108df
CVSS 3.1 (22e2d327-25fe-45d7-9f0c-dcd23b7108df)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-59

Description

An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package. This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References