CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2018-12015
High (7.5). EPSS 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.
Severity
- EPSS
- 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:mac_os_x
- archive\:\
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- netapp:data_ontap_edge
- netapp:oncommand_workflow_automation
- netapp:snap_creator_framework
- netapp:snapdrive
- perl:perl