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CVE-2011-5325

high

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the BusyBox implementation of tar before 1.22.0 v5 allows remote attackers to point to files outside the current working directory via a symlink.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274215

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/21/7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-07

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05799