VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-10173
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 ..
HIGH 7.5EPSS 4.70%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.70%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 4.70% probability · 91th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- minitar/archive-tar-minitar · minitar/minitar
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.