Directory Traversal Affecting file-roller package, versions <3.30.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-FILEROLLER-5679242
  • published22 Sept 2019
  • disclosed21 Sept 2019

Introduced: 21 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16680  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 file-roller to version 3.30.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream file-roller package and not the file-roller package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91. It allows a single ./../ path traversal via a filename contained in a TAR archive, possibly overwriting a file during extraction.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1