CVE-2021-38511

Summary:

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

Reference Links(if available):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html

CVSS Score (if available)

v2: / MEDIUM

v3: /

Links to Exploits(if available)