CVE-2020-36314

low-risk
Published 2021-04-07

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.06% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 3.9/10 Low
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

File-Roller

Affected Vendors

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low-risk
Severity 14/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low