CVE-2021-23177

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libarchive (affected versions not specified)

Description An improper link resolution flaw while extracting an archive can lead to changing the access control list (ACL) of the target of the link. 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 change the ACL of a file on the system and gain more privileges.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.