CVE-2016-6321
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Dec 9, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 26, 2016
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar 1.14 through 1.29 might allow remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism and write to arbitrary files via vectors related to improper sanitization of the file_name parameter, aka POINTYFEATHER.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- 20161030 [CSS] POINTYFEATHER / tar extract pathname bypass (CVE-2016-6321) - patch updatemailing-list
- 93937vdb-entry
- GLSA-201611-19vendor-advisory
- 20161026 [CSS] POINTYFEATHER / tar extract pathname bypass (CVE-2016-6321)mailing-list
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=7340f67b9860ea0531c1450e5aa261c50f67165d
- [bug-tar] 20161029 Re: [Bug-tar] possible fixes for CVE-2016-6321mailing-list
- DSA-3702vendor-advisory
- https://sintonen.fi/advisories/tar-extract-pathname-bypass.proper.txt
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/139370/GNU-tar-1.29-Extract-Pathname-Bypass.html
- USN-3132-1vendor-advisory
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
- [bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8mailing-list
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