Known Vulnerabilities for Tar by Tar Project

Listed below are 4 of the newest known vulnerabilities associated with "Tar" by "Tar Project".

These CVEs are retrieved based on exact matches on listed software, hardware, and vendor information (CPE data) as well as a keyword search to ensure the newest vulnerabilities with no officially listed software information are still displayed.

Data on known vulnerable versions is also displayed based on information from known CPEs

Known Vulnerabilities

CVE Shortened Description Severity Publish Date Last Modified
CVE-2021-38511 An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can c... 7.5 - HIGH 2021-08-10 2022-06-28
CVE-2021-32804 The npm package "tar" (aka node-tar) before versions 6.1.1, 5.0.6, 4.4.14, and 3.3.2 has a arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite ... 8.1 - HIGH 2021-08-03 2022-04-25
CVE-2021-32803 The npm package "tar" (aka node-tar) before versions 6.1.2, 5.0.7, 4.4.15, and 3.2.3 has an arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite... 8.1 - HIGH 2021-08-03 2022-07-02
CVE-2018-20990 An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink... 7.5 - HIGH 2019-08-26 2019-08-28

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.9AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.8AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.7AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.6AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.5AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.4AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.3AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.26AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.25AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.24AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.23AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.22AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.21AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.20AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.2AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.19AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.18AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.17AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.16AllAllAll
ApplicationTar ProjectTar0.4.15AllAllAll
Results limited to 20 most recent known configurations
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