GHSA-rpw6-9xfx-jvcxHighCVSS 7.5

Directory Traversal in Archive_Tar

Published
April 22, 2021
Last Modified
October 22, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related issue to CVE-2020-28948.

:exclamation: Note:

There was an initial fix for this vulnerability made in version 1.4.12. That fix introduced a bug which was fixed in 1.4.13. Therefore we have set the first-patched-version to 1.4.13 which the earliest working version that avoids this vulnerability.

🎯 Affected products1

  • composer/pear/archive_tar:<= 1.4.11

🔗 References (19)