High
Security advisory
tar/TarFileReader.cpp in Cauldron cbang (aka C-Bang or C!) before 1.6.0 allows Directory Traversal during extraction from a TAR archive.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-15908
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
tar/TarFileReader.cpp in Cauldron cbang (aka C-Bang or C!) before 1.6.0 allows Directory Traversal during extraction from a TAR archive.
osv:CVE-2020-15908
Complete source record
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