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CVE-2013-4420

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) tar_extract_glob and (2) tar_extract_all functions in libtar 1.2.20 and earlier allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a crafted tar file.

Affected products

Feep Libtar: through 1.2.20; 1.2.11, 1.2.13, 1.2.14, 1.2.15, 1.2.16, 1.2.17 (+2)

References

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