GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2015-8860

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	tar	< 2.0.0	2.0.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Versions of `tar` prior to 2.0.0 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because `tar` does not verify that extracted symbolic links to not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory. ## Recommendation Update to version 2.0.0 or later

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8860 advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v advisory
https://github.com/npm/npm package
https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5 web
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/57 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11 web