CVE-2020-36241

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36241
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-36241.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-36241
Downstream
Related
Published
2021-02-05T14:15:17Z
Modified
2025-10-21T05:53:46.147326Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
adb067e645732fdbe7103516e506d09eb6a54429

Affected versions

0.*

0.1.0
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.2
0.2.3
0.2.4

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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