CVE-2015-8860

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.37%

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 11/8/2023

Also known as:GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9vDEBIAN-CVE-2015-8860

Description

Versions of `tar` prior to 2.0.0 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because `tar` does not verify that extracted symbolic links to not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory. ## Recommendation Update to version 2.0.0 or later

Affected packages (2)

Debian/node-tarfrom 0, < 2.2.1-1
npm/tarfrom 0, < 2.0.0

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References (7)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8860
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8860
PATCHhttps://github.com/npm/npm
WEBhttps://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5
WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/57
WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11