CVE-2016-10173 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874 https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4 https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5