CVE-2020-28949

Summary

CVECVE-2020-28949
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-19 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
DescriptionArchive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.929610000 probability, percentile 0.997760000 (date 2026-04-01)

CISA KEV: Listed on 2022-08-25; due 2022-09-15; ransomware use Unknown

Problem Types: CWE-74

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

VendorPEAR
ProductArchive_Tar
NamePEAR Archive_Tar Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
Required ActionApply updates per vendor instructions.
Noteshttps://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=27002, https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-28949; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28949

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Drupal Drupal All All All All
Application Drupal Drupal All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application Php Archive Tar All All All All
Application Php Archive Tar All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: php-pear-1.10.12-4.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: drupal7-7.82-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: drupal8-8.9.11-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: drupal8-8.9.11-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2466-1] drupal7 security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
PEAR Archive_Tar Arbitrary File Write ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: drupal7-7.82-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Multiple vulnerabilities through filename manipulation · Issue #33 · pear/Archive_Tar · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: php-pear-1.10.12-4.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: drupal8-8.9.11-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: drupal7-7.82-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: drupal7-7.82-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: php-pear-1.10.12-4.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4817-1 php-pear DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: php-pear-1.10.12-4.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
PEAR Archive_Tar: Directory traversal (GLSA 202101-23) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: drupal8-8.9.11-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
Drupal core - Critical - Arbitrary PHP code execution - SA-CORE-2020-013 | Drupal.org CONFIRM www.drupal.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog CISA www.cisa.gov kev

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 154101 Drupal Core Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (SA-CORE-2020-013)
  • 160100 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for php:7.4 (ELSA-2022-6542)
  • 160197 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for php-pear (ELSA-2022-7340)
  • 240672 Red Hat Update for php:7.4 (RHSA-2022:6542)
  • 240674 Red Hat Update for php:7.4 (RHSA-2022:6541)
  • 240810 Red Hat Update for php-pear (RHSA-2022:7340)
  • 281914 Fedora Security Update for drupal7 (FEDORA-2021-8093e197f4)
  • 377605 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for php:7.4 (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0161)
  • 377760 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for php-pear (ALINUX2-SA-2022:0052)
  • 500879 Alpine Linux Security Update for drupal7
  • 504703 Alpine Linux Security Update for drupal7
  • 670917 EulerOS Security Update for php-pear (EulerOS-SA-2021-1345)
  • 940671 AlmaLinux Security Update for php:7.4 (ALSA-2022:6542)
  • 960355 Rocky Linux Security Update for php:7.4 (RLSA-2022:6542)
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