CVE-2021-37701: Path Traversal

August 31, 2021 (updated January 19, 2023)

This npm package has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be modified by a symbolic link is not extracted.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37701

Code Behaviors & Features

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