Security Resilience

CVE-2023-39804

Gnu Tar ≤ 1.35

Published
27 March 2024
Modified
04 November 2025
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.2
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0028 19th percentile
Risk Priority 47 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-39804 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Gnu Tar. Its CVSS base score is 6.2 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 19th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

In GNU tar before 1.35, mishandled extension attributes in a PAX archive can lead to an application crash in xheader.c.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

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Affected Assets

gnu
tar
≤ 1.35

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References