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VMScore

CVE-2021-38511

Published: 10/08/2021 Updated: 18/08/2021
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

An issue exists in the tar crate prior to 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

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Debian Bug report logs - #992173 rust-tar: CVE-2021-38511 Package: src:rust-tar; Maintainer for src:rust-tar is Debian Rust Maintainers <pkg-rust-maintainers@alioth-listsdebiannet>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:54:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream ...