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rust-astral-tokio-tar — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2025-59825

astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. In versions 0.5.3 and earlier of astral-tokio-tar, tar archives may extract outside of their intended destination directory when using the Entry::unpack_in_raw API. Additionally, the Entry::allow_external_symlinks control (which defaults to true) could be bypassed via a pair of symlinks that individually point within the destination but combine to point outside of it. These behaviors could be used individually or combined to bypass the intended security control of limiting extraction to the given directory. This in turn would allow an attacker with a malicious tar archive to perform an arbitrary file write and potentially pivot into code execution. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.4. There is no workaround other than upgrading.

Products
rust-astral-tokio-tar
Affected versions
0.5.2-2, 0.5.5-1, 0.5.6-1, 0.5.6-2, 0.6.0-1, 0.6.1-1, 0.6.2-1, 0.6.4-1
Fixed versions
0.5.5-1
CVEs
CVE-2025-59825
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 06:31 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-59825

core-osv · Original source

Published 23 Sept 2025, 20:15 UTC

astral-tokio-tar is a tar archive reading/writing library for async Rust. In versions 0.5.3 and earlier of astral-tokio-tar, tar archives may extract outside of their intended destination directory when using the Entry::unpack_in_raw API. Additionally, the Entry::allow_external_symlinks control (which defaults to true) could be bypassed via a pair of symlinks that individually point within the destination but combine to point outside of it. These behaviors could be used individually or combined to bypass the intended security control of limiting extraction to the given directory. This in turn would allow an attacker with a malicious tar archive to perform an arbitrary file write and potentially pivot into code execution. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.4. There is no workaround other than upgrading.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2025-59825

rust-astral-tokio-tar

Fixed versions: Not specified

rust-astral-tokio-tar

Fixed versions: 0.5.5-1

Complete source record
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