{
"id": "GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2015-8860"
],
"details": "Versions of `tar` prior to 2.0.0 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because `tar` does not verify that extracted symbolic links to not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.\n\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 2.0.0 or later",
"summary": "Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar",
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.0.0"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "tar",
"ecosystem": "npm"
}
}
],
"modified": "2021-09-10T20:53:22Z",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
}
],
"published": "2017-10-24T18:33:36Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8860",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/npm/npm",
"type": "PACKAGE"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/57",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11",
"type": "WEB"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-59"
],
"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": null,
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:37:06Z"
}
}