# archive-tar-minitar and minitar vulnerable to Path Traversal

Advisory record · `GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3` · `CVE-2016-10173`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-22](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html)
- **Tags:** [Path traversal](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/path-traversal.md)
- **Published:** 24 Oct 2017
- **Updated:** 16 Feb 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 24 Oct 2017, 18:33 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `archive-tar-minitar` (RubyGems): affected `<0.5.2`; fixed in `0.5.2`
- `minitar` (RubyGems): affected `<0.6`; fixed in `0.6`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.5 High, CVSS 3.0: `CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.047, the 91st percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 24 Oct 2017. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3)
- [OSV: GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10173>
- <https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/issues/16>
- <https://github.com/halostatue/minitar/commit/e25205ecbb6277ae8a3df1e6a306d7ed4458b6e4>
- <https://github.com/halostatue/minitar>
- <https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-32>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20170214020917/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95874>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20201207111726/https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2016-10173>
- <http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3778>
- <http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/24/7>
- <http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/1>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-h5g2-38x9-4gv3>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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