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CVE-2007-4829 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbit…

published 2007-11-02 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-4810

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.3%
EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Archive::Tar Perl module 1.36 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a TAR archive that contains a file whose name is an absolute path or has ".." sequences.

Patch / fix

  • perl Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.10.0-19

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4829

  • perl-Archive-Tar RHEL 4 1.39.1-1.el4_8.1
  • perl-Archive-Tar RHEL 5 1:1.39.1-1.el5_5.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0505

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-4829 updated cvss 5.1

perl-Archive-Tar directory traversal flaws

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) perl-Archive-Tar 1.39.1-1.el5_5.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 perl-Archive-Tar 1.39.1-1.el4_8.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) perl-Archive-Tar 1.39.1-1.el5_5.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 perl-Archive-Tar 1.39.1-1.el4_8.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 perl-Archive-Tar 1.39.1-1.el4_8.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 perl-Archive-Tar 1.39.1-1.el4_8.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0505

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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