CVE-2016-10173

Publication date 1 February 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ruby-archive-tar-minitar	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.5.2-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 0.5.2-2+deb8u1build0.12.04.1
ruby-minitar	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.5.4-3.1build0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ruby-archive-tar-minitar	Upstream: e25205e
ruby-minitar	Upstream: e25205e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N