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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-808-1 ruby-archive-tar-minitar security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3778-1 ruby-archive-tar-minitar security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0246 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:14:42.017Z

Reserved: 2017-01-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-10173

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-02-01T15:59:00.177

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-10173

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-08-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-10173 - Bugzilla

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