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CVE-2021-38511

Published: 10 August 2021

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
rust-tar
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
jammy Needs triage

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
trusty Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

focal Needs triage

hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
mantic Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N