CVE-2020-36193 – pear/archive_tar

Package

Manager: composer
Name: pear/archive_tar
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <1.4.13

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.78929 pctl0.99026

Details

Directory Traversal in Archive_Tar Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related issue to CVE-2020-28948. ### :exclamation: Note: There was an [initial fix](https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916) for this vulnerability made in version `1.4.12`. That fix introduced a bug which was [fixed in 1.4.13](https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/pull/36). Therefore we have set the first-patched-version to `1.4.13` which the earliest working version that avoids this vulnerability.

Metadata

Created: 2021-04-22T16:20:36Z
Modified: 2023-07-05T23:20:00Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/04/GHSA-rpw6-9xfx-jvcx/GHSA-rpw6-9xfx-jvcx.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-22"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-rpw6-9xfx-jvcx
Finding: F063
Auto approve: 1