PT-2017-7492 · Gnu+2 · Tar+2

Published 2016-02-10 · Updated 2021-03-15 · CVE-2015-8860

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions tar versions prior to 2.0.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive. This occurs because tar does not verify that extracted symbolic links do not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.

Recommendations Update to version 2.0.0 or later

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1086

CVE-2015-8860

GHSA-GFJR-3JMM-4G9V

USN-4777-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ubuntu

Tar

References · 69

• 🔥 https://github.com/ssllabs/openssl-ccs-cve-2014-0224 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/secretnonempty/CVE-2014-0224 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-05849 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7453 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-7452 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0224 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8860 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-05847 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4777-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8860 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-07482 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0278 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-05846 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-05848 · Security Note