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CVE-2020-36193

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-001

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4894

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YKD5WEFA4WT6AVTMRAYBNXZNLWZHM7FH/

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/FOZNK4FIIV7FSFCJNNFWMJZTTV7NFJV2/

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00007.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00018.html

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-36193

https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-01-18

Updated: 2025-11-07

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.75323