CPANSA-Archive-Tar-2018-01: Archive-Tar vulnerability

Publisher	giterlizzi	Document category	csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date	2018-06-12T00:00:00	Engine	CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date	2018-06-12T00:00:00	Build Date
Current version	1	Status	final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score	7.5	Severity	Medium
Original language		Language	en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-12015

Vulnerability Description

Weakness	CWE-59 : Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Product status

Known affected

Product

Score

Archive-Tar less than 2.28

CVSS Version	CVSS Vector	CVSS Base Score	CVSS Base Severity
3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	7.5	High
2.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P	6.4	Medium

Fixed

Archive-Tar greater than or equal 2.28

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

CPANSA-Archive-Tar-2018-01 JSON self
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2018/cpansa-archive-tar-2018-01.json
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12015 external
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12015
https://github.com/jib/archive-tar-new/commit/ae65651eab053fc6dc4590dbb863a268215c1fc5 external
https://github.com/jib/archive-tar-new/commit/ae65651eab053fc6dc4590dbb863a268215c1fc5
CVE-2018-12015 (NVD) external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12015

Revision history

Version	Date of the revision	Summary of the revision
1	Tue Jun 12 00:00:00 2018	First release

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