6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.8%
Red Hat reports:
A path traversal flaw was discovered in the way GNU
tar extracted archives. A malicious user could create a
tar archive that could write to arbitrary files to which
the user running GNU tar had write access.
Red Hat credits Dmitry V. Levin for reporting the issue.