Directory Traversal Affecting file_roller package, versions [3.6.0,3.6.4)[3.8.0,3.8.3)[3.9.1,3.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.31% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FILEROLLER-2381876
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Jul 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jul 2013

CVE-2013-4668  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade file_roller to version 3.6.4, 3.8.3, 3.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in File Roller 3.6.x before 3.6.4, 3.8.x before 3.8.3, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3, when libarchive is used, allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via a crafted archive that is not properly handled in a "Keep directory structure" action, related to fr-archive-libarchive.c and fr-window.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1