HIGH 7.5

GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

Details

Versions of `tar` prior to 2.0.0 are affected by an arbitrary file write vulnerability. The vulnerability occurs because `tar` does not verify that extracted symbolic links to not resolve to targets outside of the extraction root directory.

## Recommendation

Update to version 2.0.0 or later

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Affected packages

npm / tar

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 2.0.0

Fix npm install tar@2.0.0

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8860 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/npm/npm [PACKAGE]
https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5 [WEB]
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/57 [WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11 [WEB]