Description
autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, 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 in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36241.
Published: 2021-03-17
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-15319 autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, 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 in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36241.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4937-1 GNOME Autoar vulnerability
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Gnome Gnome-autoar
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T21:47:33.025Z

Reserved: 2021-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-28650

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-17T06:15:14.640

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:00:01.500

Link: CVE-2021-28650

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-28650 - Bugzilla

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