CVE-2007-4134
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 3.0%EU EUVD
Directory traversal vulnerability in extract.c in star before 1.5a84 allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. (slash slash dot dot) sequences in directory symlinks in a TAR archive.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 3.0% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4118)
- Published
- August 30, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4118 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / fedora
References
- ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/AN-1.5a84
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070901-01-P.asc
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26626
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26672
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26673
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26857
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27318
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27544
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1018646
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-414.htm
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-23.xml
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-August/msg00425.html(Patch)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0873.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478797/100/200/threaded
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189690(Patch)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1669
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11098
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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