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CVE-2021-31272 (GCVE-0-2021-31272)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-18 21:50 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:55
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Summary
SerenityOS before commit 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c contains a directory traversal vulnerability in tar/unzip that may lead to command execution or privilege escalation.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2021-03-18 00:00
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