CVE-2016-10173

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Feb 1, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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