Medium severity · published Feb 5, 2021
CVE-2020-36241
autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check…
5.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 50% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
34 · source: NVD
GN
Gnome-autoar · Gnome
through 0.2.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36241
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36241
Patch
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/adb067e645732fdbe7103516e506d09eb6a54429
Exploit
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/issues/7
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BN5TVQ7OHZEGY6AGFLAZWCVCI53RYNHQ/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-10
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