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
- 2.2 %
- Tracked apps
- 0
- Still exposed
- 0
Base CVSS ; severity is a vendor rating (different scale)
EPSS, predicted over 30 days
Vendor bulletin scale : NVD CVSS pending
Public exploit : ExploitDB
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
2.22%
above median
percentile 81.4%