CVE-2018-12015

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12015
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12015.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-12015
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Published
2018-06-07T13:29:00.240Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:03:10.242064926Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "apple:mac_os_x",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "10.14.4"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:archive\\:\\:tar_project:archive\\:\\:tar:*:*:*:*:*:perl:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "archive::tar_project:archive::tar",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.28"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "17.10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages