CVE-2018-20990

Published Aug 26, 2019 CVSS 3.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1502 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2367-c296-3mp2 Arbitrary file overwrite in tar-rs
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 12:19 PM
Reserved
Aug 25, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 26, 2019, 1:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:53 AM