CVE-2021-38511

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust

published August 10, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
72.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01392 · 72.1th percentile
Published
2021-08-10T22:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 AUG 22:12Z
    An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust
    cvelistv5