Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-27637  

The R programming language's default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. The issue is fixed in version 4.0.3.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

The R programming language's default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. The issue is fixed in version 4.0.3.

AVG-1436 r 4.0.2-1 4.0.3-1 Medium Fixed

https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2