CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2021-38511
High (7.5) in tar project tar. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in tar 0.4.36.
An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% 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-62jx-8vmh-4mcw | crates.io | tar | <0.4.36 | 0.4.36 |
| RUSTSEC-2021-0080 | crates.io | tar | >=0.0.0-0 <0.4.36 | 0.4.36 |