CVE-2007-4131
gnu tar: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.
- EPSS
- 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:tar