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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1587 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-62jx-8vmh-4mcw Links in archive can create arbitrary directories
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:44:23.549Z

Reserved: 2021-08-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-38511

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-08-10T23:15:07.237

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:17:17.140

Link: CVE-2021-38511

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-09-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-38511 - Bugzilla

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