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CVE-2007-4829

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Path traversal
6.8CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.