CVE-2016-10173: Minitar Archive-Tar-Minitar

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a TAR archive entry.

Affected products

• Minitar Archive-Tar-Minitar: up to and including 0.5.2
• Minitar Minitar: up to and including 0.5.4

Published 2017-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.