CVE-2020-27637

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-27637
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-12 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-06 10:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe R programming language’s default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. Update to version 4.0.3

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application R-project Cran All All All All
Application R-project Cran All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
The R Project for Statistical Computing MISC www.r-project.org Vendor Advisory
CRAN Version 4.0.2 MISC labs.bishopfox.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
GLSA-202401-07 security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180617 Debian Security Update for r-base (CVE-2020-27637)
  • 710825 Gentoo Linux R Directory Traversal Vulnerability (GLSA 202401-07)
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