CVE-2016-10173
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.70% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-02-01 15:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 03:14Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-01-29
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3061236a8d50c04d7ce761d9889179463dc682737fbd88269432785ab1b15a44
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170124 CVE request: rubygem minitar: directory traversal vulnerabilityhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-32https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32
- www.securityfocus.com95874http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874
- github.comhttps://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170129 Re: CVE request: rubygem minitar: directory traversal vulnerabilityhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1
- www.debian.orgDSA-3778http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778
- puppet.comhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173
- github.comhttps://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ruby-minitar Fixed in 0.5.4-3.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ruby-minitar Fixed in 0.5.4-3.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ruby-minitar Fixed in 0.5.4-3.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- ruby-archive-tar-minitar Fixed in 0.5.2-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- ruby-minitar Fixed in 0.5.4-3.1build0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.