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CVE-2007-4134
Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files…
Medium6.8EPSS 3.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- GLSA-200710-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 26626 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-414.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26673 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070907 FLEA-2007-0051-1 star (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11098 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0873 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 26857 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1669 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189690 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1018646 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 26672 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-1852 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 27544 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 27318 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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