CVE-2024-12905CWE-22CWE-59
An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal")
High · published March 27, 2025
What it is
An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package.
This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5 · HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.02299 · 83.2th percentile
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'); CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
- Published
- 2025-03-27T16:25Z
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