CVE-2011-5325 — Path Traversal in Busybox

CWE-22 — Path TraversalCWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function11 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
NVD7.5OSV7.5
EPSS
3.8%
top 11.93%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
BusyboxDebian BusyboxNuuo Nvrmini2 Firmware+2 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 7
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the BusyBox implementation of tar before 1.22.0 v5 allows remote attackers to point to files outside the current working directory via a symlink.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶debiandebian/busybox< busybox 1:1.27.2-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianbusybox/busybox< 1:1.27.2-1+3
▶Ubuntubusybox/busybox< 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1.4+2
▶NVDbusybox/busybox1.21.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-28cm-w7c9-p27f: Directory traversal vulnerability in the BusyBox implementation of tar before 1↗2022-05-13
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GHSA
GHSA-5f63-p3w5-jphc: NUUO NVRmini2 through 3↗2022-01-15
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OSV
busybox vulnerabilities↗2019-04-03
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OSV
CVE-2011-5325: Directory traversal vulnerability in the BusyBox implementation of tar before 1↗2017-08-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
BusyBox vulnerabilities↗2019-04-03
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Red Hat
busybox: Path traversal via crafted tar file containing symlink↗2015-10-20
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Debian
CVE-2011-5325: busybox - Directory traversal vulnerability in the BusyBox implementation of tar before 1....↗2011
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-5325 busybox: Path traversal via crafted tar file containing symlink [fedora-all]↗2015-10-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2011-5325 busybox: Path traversal via crafted tar file containing symlink↗2015-10-22
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