Medium severity · published Sep 21, 2019
CVE-2019-16680
An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91
4.3
CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91. It allows a single ./../ path traversal via a filename contained in a TAR archive, possibly overwriting a file during extraction.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 82% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
FI
File-roller · Gnome
before 3.29.91 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16680
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16680
Exploit
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794337
Patch
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/commit/57268e51e59b61c9e3125eb0f65551c7084297e2
Patch
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/commit/e8fb3e24dae711e4fb0d6777e0016cdda8787bc1
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00032.html
Mailing List
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/57
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4139-1/
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