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CVE-2018-20990

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Date: August 26, 2019

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.16 for Rust. Arbitrary file overwrite can occur via a symlink or hardlink in a TAR archive.

Language: RUST

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (3)

Url: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2018-0002.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20990

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-20990

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 0.4.16

CVSS v3

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.4
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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