CVE-2016-10173

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Affected products

Minitar Archive-Tar-Minitar: through 0.5.2
Minitar: through 0.5.4

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874

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