CVE-2016-10173
HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.7%
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 v3.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N - EPSS
- 4.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 92nd percentile
- Published
- 2017-02-01
- Updated
- 2024-08-06
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- halostatue/minitar/issues/1645★ · 2026-08-01
Security advisories
- 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
- advisories/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3