CVE-2021-38511 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html

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