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CVE-2025-48387 (GCVE-0-2025-48387)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-02 19:20 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:04
VLAI
Title
tar-fs has issue where extract can write outside the specified dir with a specific tarball
Summary
tar-fs provides filesystem bindings for tar-stream. Versions prior to 3.0.9, 2.1.3, and 1.16.5 have an issue where an extract can write outside the specified dir with a specific tarball. This has been patched in versions 3.0.9, 2.1.3, and 1.16.5. As a workaround, use the ignore option to ignore non files/directories.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-03 02:03 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
mafintosh tar-fs Affected: < 1.16.5
Affected: >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.3
Affected: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.9
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