CVE-2002-0399: GNU Tar

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU tar 1.13.19 through 1.13.25, and possibly later versions, allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files during archive extraction via a (1) "/.." or (2) "./.." string, which removes the leading slash but leaves the "..", a variant of CVE-2001-1267.

Affected products

• GNU Tar: version 1.13.25 only

Published 2002-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.