Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting pear/archive_tar package, versions <1.4.4


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 0.51% (77th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PHP-PEARARCHIVETAR-73509
  • published 15 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 28 Dec 2018
  • credit mrook

How to fix?

Upgrade pear/archive_tar to version 1.4.4 or higher.

Overview

pear/archive_tar is a Tar file management class with compression support (gzip, bzip2, lzma2)

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). Filenames that start with phar:// are vulnerable.