CVE-2020-27637 (GCVE-0-2020-27637)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-01-12 00:00
Modified
2024-08-04 16:18
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The R programming language’s default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. Update to version 4.0.3
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-07
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.r-project.org/foundation/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-07
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.r-project.org/foundation/Vendor Advisory
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