VDB
CVE-2016-10173
CVE-2016-10173
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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.
EPSS 4.70% · 91.7th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score
4.70%
91.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | ruby-minitar | 0, 0.5.4-2, 0.5.4-3 |
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | ruby-archive-tar-minitar | 0, 0.5.2-2 |
Timeline
- Feb 1, 2017 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 21, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 13, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 5, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 20, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 11, 2023 EPSS Score
- Dec 26, 2023 EPSS Score
- Feb 17, 2024 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10173 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021740 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10173 third-party-advisory