CVE-2016-10173 (GCVE-0-2016-10173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-01 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:14
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public ?
2016-08-22 00:00
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