CVE-2021-37713: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

August 31, 2021 (updated April 25, 2022)

The npm package “tar” (aka node-tar) has an arbitrary file creation/overwrite and arbitrary code execution vulnerability. node-tar aims to guarantee that any file whose location would be outside of the extraction target directory is not extracted.

References

github.com/npm/node-tar/security/advisories/GHSA-5955-9wpr-37jh
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37713

Code Behaviors & Features

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