Gnome-autoar CVEs and Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-28650

gnome-autoar: Directory traversal via directory symbolic links pointing outside of the destination directory (incomplete CVE-2020-36241 fix)

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.

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Vendors

Fedoraproject Gnome Redhat

Products

Fedora Gnome-autoar Enterprise Linux

CVE-2020-36241

gnome-autoar: Directory traversal via directory symbolic links pointing outside of the destination directory

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.