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crates.io4 known CVEs affecting this package
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CVEs affecting tarpage 1 of 1
- CVE-2018-20990HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5✓ Fixed in 0.4.162019-08-26
An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive.
- CVE-2021-38511HIGHCVSS 7.5EG 7.5✓ Fixed in 0.4.362021-08-10
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.
- CVE-2026-33055HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.1✓ Fixed in 0.4.452026-03-20
tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar proje…
- CVE-2026-33056MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.5✓ Fixed in 0.4.452026-03-20
tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpack_dir function uses fs::metadata() to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Becau…
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