HIGH7.5

GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v

Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite in tar

Quick fix

GHSA-gfjr-3jmm-4g9v — tar: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install tar@2.0.0

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: 0Fixed in: 2.0.0

Fixnpm 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]