CVE-2026-33056
tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.1 Medium
- Published
- Mar 20, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 20, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 17, 2026
Description
tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpack_dir function uses fs::metadata() to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata() follows symbolic links, a crafted tarball containing a symlink entry followed by a directory entry with the same name causes the crate to treat the symlink target as a valid existing directory — and subsequently apply chmod to it. This allows an attacker to modify the permissions of arbitrary directories outside the extraction root. This issue has been fixed in version 0.4.45.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 5.1 Medium | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
tar-rsalexcrichton |
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References
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