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BREW-UFFIZZI-CVE-2016-10173 (GHSA-H5G2-38X9-4GV3)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:46 – Updated: 2026-08-13 17:46 – Source website

Summary

archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal

Details

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

URL

Type

	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10173	ADVISORY
	https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16	WEB
	https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e252…	WEB
	https://github.com/halostatue/minitar	PACKAGE
	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32	WEB
	https://web.archive.org/web/20170214020917/http:/…	WEB
	https://web.archive.org/web/20201207111726/https:…	WEB
	http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778	WEB
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7	WEB
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1	WEB

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CVE-2016-10173 (GCVE-0-2016-10173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-01 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:14

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e252…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2016-08-22 00:00

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GHSA-H5G2-38X9-4GV3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2017-10-24 18:33 – Updated: 2023-09-05 21:02

Summary

archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal

Details

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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