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  • Medium 6.5

    tar-rs 0.4.11 - 0.4.46 Symlink Escape via append_dir_all()

    tar-rs versions 0.4.11 through 0.4.46 contain a symlink escape vulnerability in the Builder::append_dir_all() function that allows attackers to read files outside the intended source root directory by planting symlinks in an attacker-controlled directory. Whe…

  • Medium 5.1

    tar-rs: unpack_in can chmod arbitrary directories by following symlinks

    tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. In versions 0.4.44 and below, when unpacking a tar archive, the tar crate's unpack_dir function uses fs::metadata() to check whether a path that already exists is a directory. Because fs::metadata() fo…

  • Medium 5.1

    tar-rs incorrectly ignores PAX size headers if header size is nonzero

    tar-rs is a tar archive reading/writing library for Rust. Versions 0.4.44 and below have conditional logic that skips the PAX size header in cases where the base header size is nonzero. As part of CVE-2025-62518, the astral-tokio-tar project was changed to co…