Directory Traversal and Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability in Perl Archive::Tar Module

CVE-2018-12015 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

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