ghsa-75c5-f4gw-38r9
Vulnerability from github
Published
2021-04-22 16:20
Modified
2025-10-22 17:56
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities through filename manipulation in Archive_Tar
Details

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. See: https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Packagist",
        "name": "pear/archive_tar"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.4.11"
            }
          ],
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        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-28949"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-74"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-03-23T00:20:31Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-11-19T19:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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. See: https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33",
  "id": "GHSA-75c5-f4gw-38r9",
  "modified": "2025-10-22T17:56:52Z",
  "published": "2021-04-22T16:20:59Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28949"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33"
    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
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      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23"
    },
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    },
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    },
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00045.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/pear/archive_tar/CVE-2020-28949.yaml"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161095/PEAR-Archive_Tar-Arbitrary-File-Write.html"
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  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Multiple vulnerabilities through filename manipulation in Archive_Tar"
}


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