A vulnerability was found in tar-fs before 1.16.2. An Arbitrary File Overwrite issue exists when extracting a tarball containing a hardlink to a file that already exists on the system, in conjunction with a later plain file with the same name as the hardlink. This plain file content replaces the existing file content.
{
"severity": "HIGH",
"nvd_published_at": "2019-04-30T19:29:00Z",
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-20"
],
"github_reviewed_at": "2019-05-01T18:25:25Z"
}