5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-36241

Published: 05/02/2021 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 187
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar up to and including 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #982737 gnome-autoar: CVE-2020-36241 Package: src:gnome-autoar; Maintainer for src:gnome-autoar is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:36:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: secu ...
Debian Bug report logs - #985391 gnome-autoar: CVE-2021-28650 Package: src:gnome-autoar; Maintainer for src:gnome-autoar is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:39:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: secu ...
autoar-extractorc in GNOME gnome-autoar through 024, 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 ...