CVE-2021-28650

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Gnome-autoar
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 March 2021

Summary

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, 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 in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36241.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/8109...
x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-10
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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