PT-2017-7783 · Ruby+1 · Minitar+2

Michal Marek · Published 2017-01-31 · Updated 2026-03-13 · CVE-2016-10173

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 minitar versions prior to 0.6 archive-tar-minitar version 0.5.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry. This is a directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar and archive-tar-minitar gems for Ruby.

Recommendations For minitar versions prior to 0.6, update to version 0.6 or later. For archive-tar-minitar version 0.5.2, consider disabling the use of TAR archive entries until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10173

DLA-808-1

DSA-3778-1

GHSA-CWP3-834G-X79G

GHSA-H5G2-38X9-4GV3

MGASA-2017-0060

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11332-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11338-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13163-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14172-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15121-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10354-1

SUSE-SU-2021:0115-1

SUSE-SU-2021_0115-1

Affected Products

Suse

Archive-Tar-Minitar

Minitar

References · 35

• 🔥 https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16 · Exploit
• https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4 · Patch
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0060.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10354-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0060 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10173 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10173 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10173 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-cwp3-834g-x79g · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10173 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14172-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 · Vendor Advisory