HighGHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9vCVE-2015-8860

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

Published 24 Oct 2017 · Updated 8 Nov 2023

Affected package

Affected: <2.0.0
Fixed in: 2.0.0

Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install tar@2.0.0

Details

Versions of tar prior to 2.0.0 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because tar does not verify that extracted symbolic links to not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.0.0 or later

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References

Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8860
Advisorygithub.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v
Packagegithub.com/npm/npm
Linkgithub.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5
Linkwww.npmjs.com/advisories/57
Linkwww.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11

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