CVE-2011-5325

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the BusyBox implementation of tar before 1.22.0 v5 allows remote attackers to point to files outside the current working directory via a symlink.

Affected products

busybox: through 1.21.1
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/21/7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274215
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00037.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00020.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3935-1/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Aug/20

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