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CVE-2002-0399 — MEDIUM severity vulnerability (Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through)

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.

CVE IDCVE-2002-0399
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS score5.0
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CWENVD-CWE-Other
StatusModified
Published2002-10-10
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionDirectory 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.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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