CVE-2020-36241

Published on: 02/05/2021 12:00:00 AM UTC

Last Modified on: 04/08/2022 02:22:00 PM UTC

CVE-2020-36241

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Certain versions of Fedora from Fedoraproject contain the following vulnerability:

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.

CVE-2020-36241 has been assigned by [email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as MEDIUM severity.

CVSS3 Score: 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack Vector ^ⓘ	Attack Complexity	Privileges Required	User Interaction
LOCAL	LOW	LOW	NONE
Scope	Confidentiality Impact	Integrity Impact	Availability Impact
UNCHANGED	HIGH	NONE	NONE

CVSS2 Score: 2.1 - LOW

Access Vector^ⓘ	Access Complexity	Authentication
LOCAL	LOW	NONE
Confidentiality Impact	Integrity Impact	Availability Impact
PARTIAL	NONE	NONE

CVE References

Description	Tags ^ⓘ	Link
GNOME Autoar: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code (GLSA 202105-10) — Gentoo security	security.gentoo.org text/html	GENTOO GLSA-202105-10
CVE-2020-36241: A malicious archive allows Directory Traversal during extraction (#7) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-autoar · GitLab	Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory gitlab.gnome.org text/html	MISC gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/issues/7
AutoarExtractor: Do not extract files outside the destination dir (adb067e6) · Commits · GNOME / gnome-autoar · GitLab	Patch Vendor Advisory gitlab.gnome.org text/html	MISC gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/adb067e645732fdbe7103516e506d09eb6a54429
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: glib2-2.67.6-2.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists	lists.fedoraproject.org text/html	FEDORA FEDORA-2021-303f6623fa

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Related QID Numbers

159499 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for GNOME (ELSA-2021-4381)
239811 Red Hat Update for gnome security (RHSA-2021:4381)
281465 Fedora Security Update for adwaita (FEDORA-2021-303f6623fa)
296067 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 33.94.0 Missing (CPUAPR2021)
501564 Alpine Linux Security Update for gnome-autoar
710105 Gentoo Linux GNOME Autoar User-assisted execution of arbitrary code vulnerability (GLSA 202105-10)
750327 OpenSUSE Security Update for gnome-autoar (openSUSE-SU-2021:0390-1)
940070 AlmaLinux Security Update for GNOME (ALSA-2021:4381)

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Operating System	Fedoraproject	Fedora	34	All	All	All
Application	Gnome	Gnome-autoar	All	All	All	All

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome-autoar:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE

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