Vulnerability · NVD

CVE-2024-12905

CVE-2024-12905 : high severity (CVSS 7.5). No tracked catalog app is linked to this CVE.

Severity (CVSS): 7.5
Exploitation: 2.3 %
Tracked apps: 0
Still exposed: 0

Vendor bulletin scale : NVD CVSS pending Public exploit : ExploitDB Published on 2025-03-11

An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package.

This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.

EPSS 2.26% above median percentile 82.7%

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