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.
Published: 2021-02-05
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23786 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4733-1 GNOME Autoar vulnerability
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Gnome Gnome-autoar
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:23:09.861Z

Reserved: 2021-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-36241

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-02-05T14:15:17.387

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:29:08.103

Link: CVE-2020-36241

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-11-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-36241 - Bugzilla

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