CVE-2020-4053

Summary

CVECVE-2020-4053
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-16 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-07-06 16:47:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Helm greater than or equal to 3.0.0 and less than 3.2.4, a path traversal attack is possible when installing Helm plugins from a tar archive over HTTP. It is possible for a malicious plugin author to inject a relative path into a plugin archive, and copy a file outside of the intended directory. This has been fixed in 3.2.4.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Helm Helm All All All All
Application Helm Helm All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release Helm v3.2.4 · helm/helm · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Plugin archive directory traversal · Advisory · helm/helm · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Third Party Advisory
Improve the extractor and add tests (#8317) · helm/helm@0ad800e · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982060 Go (go) Security Update for helm.sh/helm/v3/pkg/plugin/installer (GHSA-qq3j-xp49-j73f)
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