CVE-2016-6321
26Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 16%
exploitation probability
16%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the file_name parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=7340f67b9860ea0531c1450e5aa261c50f67165dhttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-10/msg00016.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139370/GNU-tar-1.29-Extract-Pathname-Bypass.htmlhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Oct/102http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Oct/96https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-19https://sintonen.fi/advisories/tar-extract-pathname-bypass.proper.txthttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3702http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93937http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3132-1