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CVE-2001-1267

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2001-07-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

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).

Affected Platforms

Gnu Tar

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References