tar-fs up to 1.16.1 Tarball directory traversal

A vulnerability was found in tar-fs up to 1.16.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is a part of the component Tarball Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a directory traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. Impacted is integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 04/30/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-20835 since 04/30/2019. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.16.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.4

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Class: Directory traversal (CWE-22)
Local: Yes
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Upgrade: tar-fs 1.16.2

04/30/2019 Advisory disclosed
04/30/2019 +0 days VulDB entry created
04/30/2019 +0 days CVE assigned
04/30/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateCVE: CVE-2018-20835 (?)Created: 04/30/2019 11:07 PM
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