astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. In versions 0.5.3 and earlier of astral-tokio-tar, tar archives may extract outside of their intended destination directory when using the Entry::unpack_in_raw API. Additionally, the Entry::allow_external_symlinks control (which defaults to true) could be bypassed via a pair of symlinks that individually point within the destination but combine to point outside of it. These behaviors could be used individually or combined to bypass the intended security control of limiting extraction to the given directory. This in turn would allow an attacker with a malicious tar archive to perform an arbitrary file write and potentially pivot into code execution. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.4. There is no workaround other than upgrading.
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Description | astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. In versions 0.5.3 and earlier of astral-tokio-tar, tar archives may extract outside of their intended destination directory when using the Entry::unpack_in_raw API. Additionally, the Entry::allow_external_symlinks control (which defaults to true) could be bypassed via a pair of symlinks that individually point within the destination but combine to point outside of it. These behaviors could be used individually or combined to bypass the intended security control of limiting extraction to the given directory. This in turn would allow an attacker with a malicious tar archive to perform an arbitrary file write and potentially pivot into code execution. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.4. There is no workaround other than upgrading. | |
Title | astral-tokio-tar has a path traversal in tar extraction | |
Weaknesses | CWE-22 CWE-61 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2025-09-23T20:00:44.253Z
Updated: 2025-09-24T18:41:57.505Z
Reserved: 2025-09-22T14:34:03.470Z
Link: CVE-2025-59825

Updated: 2025-09-24T18:41:52.492Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-09-23T20:15:33.130
Modified: 2025-09-24T18:11:24.520
Link: CVE-2025-59825
