CVE-2021-38511 | BDVDB-2026-158508 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12021-08-10Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-04Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.