{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4131 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2007-4131 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 25 Aug 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2007-4131 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2007-4131 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 25 Aug 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4131 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4131/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4131/index.md)","id":"CVE-2007-4131","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4131/index.md","name":"CVE-2007-4131","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4131","GHSA-43w6-q9mv-9cwf","RHSA-2007:0860"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU tar utility","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can overwrite arbitrary files via crafted TAR archives with directory traversal sequences, requiring user interaction to extract the archive.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"tar","vendor":"gnu"}],"cvss":{"score":6.8,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[],"description":"Directory traversal vulnerability in the contains_dot_dot function in src/names.c in GNU tar allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via certain //.. 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