CVE-2018-20990

high

Description

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive.

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-08-26

Updated: 2019-08-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

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

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: 0.00299