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SCA: security update for archive-tar-minitar, minitar (GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422369

Description

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

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby
 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.
 (CVE-2016-10173)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422369

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10173

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10173

BID: 95874

cwe: CWE-22