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critical9.1

CVE-2020-36566

tar-utils Path Traversal vulnerability

Impact

Due to improper path sanitization, archives containing relative file paths can cause files to be written (or overwritten) outside of the target directory.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
gogithub.com/whyrusleeping/tar-utils< 0.0.0-20201201191210-20a61371de5b0.0.0-20201201191210-20a61371de5b

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Tar-Utils ProjectTar-Utils
before 0.0.0-20201201191210-20a61371de5b

Weakness classification

References