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CVE-2007-4829
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite…
Medium6.8EPSS 4.3%
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- redhat
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.
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)
- 4.3% · top 8.9% 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
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- affected n/a
References (15)
- 33116 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11658 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- perl-archivetar-directory-traversal(38285) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29517 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3755 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 26355 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-700-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 40410 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1716 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 27539 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 33314 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295021 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-700-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- GLSA-200812-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=30380 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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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