CVE-2018-20990

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20990
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20990.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20990
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2019-08-26T13:15:11.070Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:49:27.019069Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
b3ea06fcaf8b1bf38b4266da3e73bb43fbcbc2d5

Affected versions

0.*

0.1.0
0.1.10
0.1.11
0.1.6
0.1.7
0.1.8
0.1.9
0.2.1
0.2.10
0.2.11
0.2.12
0.2.13
0.2.14
0.2.2
0.2.4
0.2.5
0.2.6
0.2.7
0.2.8
0.2.9
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.10
0.4.11
0.4.12
0.4.13
0.4.14
0.4.15
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.4.4
0.4.5
0.4.6
0.4.7
0.4.8
0.4.9

v0.*

v0.4.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20990.json"