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CVE-2016-10173
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-02-01T15:59:00.177 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:39:12.560

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.

Affected products

minitar — archive-tar-minitar

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References

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