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CVE-2002-0399
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (18)
- 47800 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 26673 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:096 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 5834 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2007:019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ESA-20021003-022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_ENGARDEx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1631 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20020928 GNU tar (Re: Allot Netenforcer problems, GNU TAR flaw) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- CLA-2002:538 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- 20070827 FLEA-2007-0049-1 tar (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 26987 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19130 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 26604 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- archive-extraction-directory-traversal(10224) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1000928 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- MDKSA-2002:066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 20070825 rPSA-2007-0172-1 tar (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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)
- 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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