Directory Traversal Affecting file_roller package, versions [0,3.39.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.61% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FILEROLLER-3023055
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Apr 2021

CVE-2020-36314  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade file_roller to version 3.39.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.38.0, as used by GNOME Shell 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-2020-11736.

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