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CVE-2017-1000026

7.5 highEPSS 1.9%

High (7.5) in progress mixlib-archive. EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in mixlib-archive 0.4.0.

Chef Software's mixlib-archive versions 0.3.0 and older are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using ".." in tar archive entries

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 79% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-22
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-98wx-cw86-c97xRubyGemsmixlib-archive<0.4.00.4.0

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