CVE-2016-10173

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.5

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

2.922

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-10173 are fixed in Ruby-minitar 0.6	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-10173 are fixed in Ruby-archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2	Windows
ruby-archive-tar-minitar security update(DSA-3778-1) ruby-archive-tar-minitar_0.5.2-2+deb8u1_all.deb	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-10173 are fixed in Ruby-minitar for Linux 0.6	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-10173 are fixed in Ruby-archive-tar-minitar for Linux 0.5.2	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234