CVE-2024-12905

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12905
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-12905.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-12905
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-03-27T17:15:53.250Z
Modified
2026-02-05T04:33:46.644293Z
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 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package.

This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mafintosh/tar-fs

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.1.0
v2.1.1
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.0.1
v3.0.2
v3.0.3
v3.0.4
v3.0.5
v3.0.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-12905.json"