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SCA: security update for github.com/whyrusleeping/tar-utils (GHSA-jpf8-h7h7-3ppm)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416490

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Due to improper path sanitization, archives containing relative file paths can cause files to be written
 (or overwritten) outside of the target directory. (CVE-2020-36566)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jpf8-h7h7-3ppm

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 416490

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-36566

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/28/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-36566

cwe: CWE-22