CVE-2024-12905 (GCVE-0-2024-12905)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 16:25 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:29
VLAI?
Summary
An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package.
This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
Assigner
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Impacted products
Credits
@bnbdr
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Nomenclature
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