CVE-2023-38346

An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7

High · published September 22, 2023

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
74.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7. The function ``tarExtract`` implements TAR file extraction and thereby also processes files within an archive that have relative or absolute file paths. A developer using the "tarExtract" function may expect that the function will strip leading slashes from absolute paths or stop processing when encountering relative paths that are outside of the extraction path, unless otherwise forced. This could lead to unexpected and undocumented behavior, which in general could result in a directory traversal, and associated unexpected behavior.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01541 · 74.8th percentile
Published
2023-09-22T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 SEP 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7
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