CVE-2011-5325

Busybox vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

7.2%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Busybox

Affected product

Busybox

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2017-08-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 7.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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