GHSA-62jx-8vmh-4mcwHighCVSS 7.5

Links in archive can create arbitrary directories

Published
August 25, 2021
Last Modified
June 13, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-38511 →

📋 Description

When unpacking a tarball that contains a symlink the tar crate may create directories outside of the directory it's supposed to unpack into. The function errors when it's trying to create a file, but the folders are already created at this point.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/tar:< 0.4.36

🔗 References (6)