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CVE-2015-8860
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-23T21:59:00.690 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:23.070

Summary

The tar package before 2.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

Affected products

nodejs — node.js

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References

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