CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2018-20990
High (7.5) in tar project tar. EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in tar 0.4.16.
An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 76% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- tar_project:tar
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-2367-c296-3mp2 | crates.io | tar | <0.4.16 | 0.4.16 |
| RUSTSEC-2018-0002 | crates.io | tar | >=0.0.0-0 <0.4.16 | 0.4.16 |