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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2016-10173 json

archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal

published 2017-02-01 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3 , EUVD-2017-0246

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2
  • rubygems minitar 0.6
  • ruby-minitar Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.5.4-3.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10173

  • ruby-minitar Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.5.4-3.1build0.16.04.1
  • ruby-archive-tar-minitar Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.5.2-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10173

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • rubygem-archive-tar-minitar SLE Module for Containers 12 0.5.2-7.3.65

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:0115-1

  • rubygem-minitar openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.9-1.21
  • rubygem-minitar openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.9-1.19
  • rubygem-minitar openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.9-1.17
  • ruby3.2-rubygem-minitar openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.9-1.13

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10354-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15121-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14172-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13163-1

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-2016-10173 updated cvss 5.5

rubygem-archive-tar-minitar: Directory traversal during archive extraction

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 rubygem-archive-tar-minitar Red Hat Satellite 6 ruby193-rubygem-archive-tar-minitar
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

4.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems archive-tar-minitar
<0.5.2
0.5.2
rubygems minitar
<0.6
0.6

Classification

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

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.