{"id":"GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v","summary":"Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar","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","aliases":["CVE-2015-8860"],"modified":"2023-11-08T03:58:03.745416Z","published":"2017-10-24T18:33:36Z","database_specific":{"nvd_published_at":null,"cwe_ids":["CWE-59"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2020-06-16T21:37:06Z"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8860"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/npm/npm"},{"type":"WEB","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"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tar","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/tar"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.0.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"}]}