CVE-2021-23177 (GCVE-0-2021-23177)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 19:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-59 - - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Summary
An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the target of the link. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to change the ACL of a file on the system and gain more privileges.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libarchive Version: Fixed in libarchive 3.5.2
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