CVE-2023-39804 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gnu	Tar

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:tar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058079
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/commit/?id=a339f05cd269013fa133d2f148d73f6f7d4247e4
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/tar.git/tree/src/xheader.c?h=release_1_34#n1723
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00008.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-39804
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39804

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00008.html

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gnu:tar::::::::

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 3.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:16:37.208Z

Reserved: 2023-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-39804

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T18:18:09.673Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-03-27T04:15:08.897

Modified: 2025-11-04T19:15:55.430

Link: CVE-2023-39804

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-12-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-39804 - Bugzilla

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