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CVE-2006-0931

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-02-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in PEAR::Archive_Tar 1.2, and other versions before 1.3.2, allows remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via certain crafted pathnames in a TAR archive.

Affected products

• Pear Archive Tar: through 1.2; through 1.3.0; through 1.3.1

References

• http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6933
• http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar/download/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19011
• http://www.hamid.ir/security/phptar.txt
• http://www.osvdb.org/23481
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425967/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16805
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0728
• http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6933
• http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar/download/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19011
• http://www.hamid.ir/security/phptar.txt

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