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01 Record

CVE-2021-37713

Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite on Windows via insufficient relative path sanitization

HighPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score8.2 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
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02 Description

Arbitrary File Creation/Overwrite on Windows via insufficient relative path sanitization

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
1.27% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 69.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
8.6 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

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
2021-08-31 16:50Z5 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-04 01:23Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2021-07-29
Assigning CNA
GitHub_M
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
High (CVSS 8.2)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
  • CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
Data version
5.1
Document digest
9a737dcf5d7aa82b7c3da7a92ee5cdcb23ff4127c80824ece528f89615cfde61

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
npmnode-tar< 4.4.18, >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.10, >= 6.0.0, < 6.1.9—

06 References