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CVE-2020-28949

high

Description

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

https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4817

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NBYZSHYTIOBK6V7C4N7TP6KIKCRKLVWP/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWM4CTMEGAC4I2CHYNJVSROY4CVXVEUT/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KSFM672XW3X6BR7TVKRD63SLZGKK437/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4V35LBRM6HBCXBVCITKQ4UEBTXO2EG7B/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00045.html

https://github.com/imhunterand/PenetrationTesterRE

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-75c5-f4gw-38r9

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-28949

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

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161095/PEAR-Archive_Tar-Arbitrary-File-Write.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-11-19

Updated: 2026-06-17

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.84554