FKIE_CVE-2020-36193

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-01-18 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:14
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related issue to CVE-2020-28948.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00018.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR/Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FOZNK4FIIV7FSFCJNNFWMJZTTV7NFJV2/Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N/Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YKD5WEFA4WT6AVTMRAYBNXZNLWZHM7FH/Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4894Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-001Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00018.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00007.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR/Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FOZNK4FIIV7FSFCJNNFWMJZTTV7NFJV2/Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N/Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YKD5WEFA4WT6AVTMRAYBNXZNLWZHM7FH/Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4894Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-001Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-36193US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
php archive_tar *
fedoraproject fedora 32
fedoraproject fedora 33
fedoraproject fedora 34
fedoraproject fedora 35
debian debian_linux 9.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
drupal drupal *
drupal drupal *
drupal drupal *
drupal drupal *
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