CVE-2020-7669: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

May 18, 2021 (updated October 2, 2023)

This affects all versions of package github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/tarutil. It is vulnerable to both leading and non-leading relative path traversal attacks in tar file extraction.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-75qf-wgfj-v652
github.com/u-root/u-root/pull/1817
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7669
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMUROOTUROOTPKGTARUTIL-570428

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