Directory Traversal Affecting file_roller package, versions [0,3.36.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.77% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FILEROLLER-3023054
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-11736  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade file_roller to version 3.36.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.36.1 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1