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CVE-2018-12015
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-07T13:29:00.240 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:36:59.913

Summary

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

Affected products

canonical — ubuntu_linux

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References

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