CVE-2016-10173
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0.5.4-3.1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.5.4-3.1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.5.4-3.1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.5.4-3.1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.5.4-3.1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| RubyGems | archive-tar-minitar | <>= 0.6.0 | >= 0.6.0 |
| RubyGems | minitar | <>= 0.6.0 | >= 0.6.0 |
| RubyGems | archive-tar-minitar | <0.5.2 | 0.5.2 |
| RubyGems | minitar | <0.6 | 0.6 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| minitar | archive-tar-minitar | {"endIncluding":"0.5.2"} | |
| minitar | minitar | {"endIncluding":"0.5.4"} | |
References
- https://github.com/atoulme/minitar/issues/5
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10173
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170214020917/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201207111726/https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10173
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.