7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-10173

Published: 01/02/2017 Updated: 09/12/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar prior to 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote malicious users to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

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Debian Bug report logs - #853075 ruby-minitar: CVE-2016-10173: directory traversal vulnerability Package: src:ruby-minitar; Maintainer for src:ruby-minitar is Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 20 ...
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 06 and archive-tar-minitar 052 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry ...