CVE-2016-10173

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

5%p91

Published

Feb 1, 2017 (Feb 1, 2017)

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.

Vendors: minitar
Products: archive-tar-minitar, minitar
Weakness: CWE-22
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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