CVE-2021-31272

Summary

CVECVE-2021-31272
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-18 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-22 17:03:00 UTC
DescriptionSerenityOS before commit 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c contains a directory traversal vulnerability in tar/unzip that may lead to command execution or privilege escalation.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Serenityos Serenityos All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Userland: Fix tar/unzip directory traversal vulnerability by bblenard · Pull Request #5713 · SerenityOS/serenity · GitHub MISC github.com
unzip: Directory traversal vulnerability may lead to command execution / privilege escalation · Issue #3992 · SerenityOS/serenity · GitHub MISC github.com
Userland: Fix tar/unzip directory traversal vulnerability by bblenard · Pull Request #5713 · SerenityOS/serenity · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
tar: Directory traversal vulnerability may lead to command execution / privilege escalation · Issue #3991 · SerenityOS/serenity · GitHub MISC github.com
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