CVE-2021-38511

PoC ×2—

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

1%p71

Published

Aug 10, 2021 (Aug 10, 2021)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: tar project
Products: tar
Weakness: CWE-59
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.4%)

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