CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2021-38511
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.39%
Original NVD Description
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.
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