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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 7, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-12015

CVE-2018-12015

Description

In Perl through 5.26.2, the Archive::Tar module allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism, and overwrite arbitrary files, via an archive file containing a symlink and a regular file with the same name.

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