Path Traversal Vulnerability in Helm Fetch and Helm Lint Commands

Path Traversal Vulnerability in Helm Fetch and Helm Lint Commands

CVE-2019-1000008 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

All versions of Helm between Helm >=2.0.0 and < 2.12.2 contains a CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in The commands `helm fetch --untar` and `helm lint some.tgz` that can result when chart archive files are unpacked a file may be unpacked outside of the target directory. This attack appears to be exploitable via a victim must run a helm command on a specially crafted chart archive. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.12.2.

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