CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-10173

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can gain access to critical system files, potentially leading to serious security breaches and data loss.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version of minitar and archive-tar-minitar to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS