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CVE-2001-1267
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction…
Low2.1EPSS 1.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a tar file whose filenames contain a .. (dot dot).
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- 47800 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:096 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20010712 SECURITY.NNOV: directory traversal and path globing in multiple archivers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- CLA-2002:538 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- archive-extraction-directory-traversal(10224) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:138 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- MDKSA-2002:066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- HPSBTL0209-068 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:218 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 3024 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2001-1248 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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