CVE-2005-1918
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The original patch for a GNU tar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2002-0399) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 uses an "incorrect optimization" that allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a crafted tar file, probably involving "/../" sequences with a leading "/".
- EPSS
- 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:tar
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:linux_advanced_workstation