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CVE-2016-10173
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write…
High7.5EPSS 4.7%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.2% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsarchive-tar-minitarGHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemsminitarGHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 (opens in a new tab)
References (8)
- [oss-security] 20170124 CVE request: rubygem minitar: directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201702-32 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 95874 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170129 Re: CVE request: rubygem minitar: directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-3778 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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 Advisory GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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