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Case File

CVE-2016-10173

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 4.74% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-02-01 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2016-10173
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.74%

Original NVD Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.