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CVE-2017-1000026

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Chef Software's mixlib-archive versions 0.3.0 and older are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using ".." in tar archive entries

Affected products

• Progress Mixlib-Archive: through 0.3.0

References

• https://github.com/chef/mixlib-archive/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/chef/mixlib-archive/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

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