CVE-2020-36241

Publication date 5 February 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, 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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gnome-autoar 20.10 groovy
Fixed 0.2.4-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 0.2.3-2ubuntu0.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 0.2.3-1ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
gnome-autoar

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-4733-1
    • GNOME Autoar vulnerability
    • 11 February 2021

Other references