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Status published
High
CVE-2016-10173
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar...
Vulnerability Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
Affected Vendor
minitar
View all reports →Affected Software
archive-tar-minitar, minitar
Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
February 1st, 2017
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.