Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.
Published: 2002-10-01
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-0396 Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:49:28.480Z

Reserved: 2002-06-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0399

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-10-10T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0399

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2002-09-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2002-0399 - Bugzilla

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