Low severity · published Sep 2, 2020
CVE-2020-24654
In KDE Ark before 20.08.1, a crafted TAR archive with symlinks can install files outside the extraction directory, as demonstrated by a write operation to a user's home directory
3.3
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In KDE Ark before 20.08.1, a crafted TAR archive with symlinks can install files outside the extraction directory, as demonstrated by a write operation to a user's home directory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AR
Ark · Kde
before 20.08.1 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 20.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24654
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-24654
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00001.html
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175857
Patch
https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/8bf8c5ef07b0ac5e914d752681e470dea403a5bd
Vendor Advisory
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00026.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXMMXNJDYOCJRZTESIUGHG6CS4RJKECX/
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