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    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/38684?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-71rt-azrp-4qah",
    "summary": "Path Traversal\nChef Software's mixlib-archive are vulnerable to a directory traversal attack allowing attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by using `..` in tar archive entries.",
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