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CVE-2021-32610

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-32610 is a high-severity vulnerability in Archive_Tar versions prior to 1.4.14, affecting products like Debian, Fedora, and PHP. This flaw allows symlinks within a tar archive to reference files outside the intended extraction directory, distinct from CVE-2020-36193. With a CVSS score of 7.1, it presents a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:archive_tar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
33CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
73.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7338 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: pear/archive_tarFixed in: 1.4.14
github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: php:7.4-8070020220707122009.afd00e68
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: php:7.3/php-pear
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-php73-php-pear

Vendor Advisories (2)

composerGHSA-p8q8-jfcv-g2h2high

Directory Traversal in Archive_Tar

Aug 9, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-32610Moderate

php-pear: Directory traversal vulnerability

Jul 30, 2021

References

github.com / pear/Archive_Tar/commit/7789ebb2f34f9e4adb3a4152ad0d1548930a9755
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / pear/Archive_Tar/commit/b5832439b1f37331fb4f87e67fe4f
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / pear/Archive_Tar/releases/tag/1.4.14
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/07/msg00023.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CAODVMHGL5MHQWQAQTXQ7G7OE3VQZ7LS
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G5LTY6COQYNMMHQJ3QIOJHEWCKD4XDFH
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N
drupal.org / sa-core-2021-004
Third Party Advisory