It was found that the Archive::Tar module did not properly sanitize symbolic links when extracting tar archives. An attacker, able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing, could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the Perl interpreter.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | perl-Archive-Tar | 2019-09-13 22:59 | ALAS-2019-1287 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | perl-Archive-Tar | 2019-10-21 18:01 | ALAS2-2019-1330 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |