CVE-2021-38511

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38511
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-38511.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-38511
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2021-08-10T23:15:07.237Z
Modified
2026-04-02T07:13:44.479583Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/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 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

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
2587ead5ce8bf9378b010f9e7e305dd9aa602360
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.4.36"
        }
    ]
}

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
0.3.4
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.10
0.4.11
0.4.12
0.4.13
0.4.14
0.4.15
0.4.16
0.4.17
0.4.18
0.4.19
0.4.2
0.4.20
0.4.21
0.4.22
0.4.23
0.4.24
0.4.25
0.4.26
0.4.27
0.4.28
0.4.29
0.4.3
0.4.30
0.4.31
0.4.32
0.4.33
0.4.34
0.4.35
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-2021-38511.json"