CVE-2016-10173

High

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.

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.5

Exploit probability—

ProductArchive-tar-minitar

PublishedFeb 1, 2017

First seenFeb 1, 2017

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
minitar archive-tar-minitar	v ≤ 0.5.2	—
minitar minitar	v ≤ 0.5.4	—

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