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GHSA-rpw6-9xfx-jvcxhigh7.5 Known exploited

Directory Traversal in Archive_Tar

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The advisory, in context

Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related issue to CVE-2020-28948.

:exclamation: Note:

There was an initial fix for this vulnerability made in version 1.4.12. That fix introduced a bug which was fixed in 1.4.13. Therefore we have set the first-patched-version to 1.4.13 which the earliest working version that avoids this vulnerability.

Affected packages

Start with the recorded fix for your release branch. Check your installed version and test compatibility before upgrading. Fixing this advisory does not rule out other vulnerabilities in the release.

Ecosystem versions

Earlier releases before 1.4.13

Fixed in 1.4.13

19 explicitly affected versions

1.3.11, 1.3.12, 1.3.13, 1.3.14, 1.3.15, 1.3.16, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.10, 1.4.11, 1.4.12, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, 1.4.8, 1.4.9

View affected-version evidence
{
  "ranges": [
    {
      "events": [
        {
          "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
          "fixed": "1.4.13"
        }
      ],
      "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
    }
  ],
  "versions": [
    "1.3.11",
    "1.3.12",
    "1.3.13",
    "1.3.14",
    "1.3.15",
    "1.3.16",
    "1.4.0",
    "1.4.1",
    "1.4.10",
    "1.4.11",
    "1.4.12",
    "1.4.2",
    "1.4.3",
    "1.4.4",
    "1.4.5",
    "1.4.6",
    "1.4.7",
    "1.4.8",
    "1.4.9"
  ]
}

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