Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2018-12015
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
7.34%
Original Filing — NVD Description
In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.