Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-31566

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH

Summary

An improper link resolution flaw can occur while extracting an archive leading to changing modes, times, access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive. An attacker may provide a malicious archive to a victim user, who would trigger this flaw when trying to extract the archive. A local attacker may use this flaw to gain more privileges in a system.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Libarchive
36
Application
Redhat
1
Application
Splunk
14
OS
Fedoraproject
1
OS
Redhat
9
OS
Debian
1