USN-5283-1

It was discovered that Tar for Node.js did not properly sanitize path inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files, resulting in a directory traversal attack.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS / node-tar

Package

Name: node-tar
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-tar@4.4.10+ds1-2ubuntu1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.4.10+ds1-2ubuntu1+esm1

Affected versions

4.*

4.4.10+ds1-2

4.4.10+ds1-2ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4.4.10+ds1-2ubuntu1+esm1",
            "binary_name": "node-tar"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2021-32803",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N"
                },
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}