Vulnerability details

CVE-2024-12905

CVSS 3.1
7.5High

Official description

An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized file writes or overwrites outside the intended extraction directory. The issue is associated with index.js in the tar-fs package. This issue affects tar-fs: from 0.0.0 before 1.16.4, from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2, from 3.0.0 before 3.0.8.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.5High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (seal) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
No product information recorded.

References and advisories

3
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Details

Published
2025-03-27
Last updated
2025-11-03
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
seal

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.29%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
83.3%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Partial

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-59
    Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
  • CWE-22
    Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')