Link Following Affecting gnome-autoar package, versions <0.3.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE323-GNOMEAUTOAR-14180387
  • published4 Dec 2025
  • disclosed17 Mar 2021

Introduced: 17 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-28650  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.23 gnome-autoar to version 0.3.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-autoar package and not the gnome-autoar package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.23 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1