CVE-2019-13173
Arbitrary File Overwrite in fstream
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.41%
Description
fstream before 1.0.12 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. Extracting tarballs containing a hardlink to a file that already exists in the system, and a file that matches the hardlink, will overwrite the system's file with the contents of the extracted file. The fstream.DirWriter() function is vulnerable.
How to fix CVE-2019-13173
To remediate CVE-2019-13173, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.0.12-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.0.12 or later
Is CVE-2019-13173 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1.0.12-1
- from 0, < 1.0.12
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |