{"id":"CVE-2021-38511","details":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-62jx-8vmh-4mcw","RUSTSEC-2021-0080"],"modified":"2026-04-02T07:13:44.479583Z","published":"2021-08-10T23:15:07.237Z","references":[{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2587ead5ce8bf9378b010f9e7e305dd9aa602360"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.4.36"}]}}],"versions":["0.1.0","0.1.10","0.1.11","0.1.6","0.1.7","0.1.8","0.1.9","0.2.1","0.2.10","0.2.11","0.2.12","0.2.13","0.2.14","0.2.2","0.2.4","0.2.5","0.2.6","0.2.7","0.2.8","0.2.9","0.3.0","0.3.1","0.3.2","0.3.3","0.3.4","0.4.0","0.4.1","0.4.10","0.4.11","0.4.12","0.4.13","0.4.14","0.4.15","0.4.16","0.4.17","0.4.18","0.4.19","0.4.2","0.4.20","0.4.21","0.4.22","0.4.23","0.4.24","0.4.25","0.4.26","0.4.27","0.4.28","0.4.29","0.4.3","0.4.30","0.4.31","0.4.32","0.4.33","0.4.34","0.4.35","0.4.4","0.4.5","0.4.6","0.4.7","0.4.8","0.4.9","v0.4.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-38511.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}