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CVE-2002-0399

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to o

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.01203
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gnu tarall versions

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD10 Oct 2002 · 04:00 AM

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11422-1
rhsaRHSA-2003:218Moderate
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