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CVE-2021-38511
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-08-10T23:15:07.237 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:02:15.500

Summary

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

Affected products

tar_project — tar

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References

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