FKIE_CVE-2020-28949
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-11-19 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:10
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/
Summary
Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| php | archive_tar | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 32 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 33 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 34 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 35 | |
| drupal | drupal | * | |
| drupal | drupal | * | |
| drupal | drupal | * | |
| drupal | drupal | * |
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