CVE-2020-4053

medium

Description

In Helm greater than or equal to 3.0.0 and less than 3.2.4, a path traversal attack is possible when installing Helm plugins from a tar archive over HTTP. It is possible for a malicious plugin author to inject a relative path into a plugin archive, and copy a file outside of the intended directory. This has been fixed in 3.2.4.

References

https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-qq3j-xp49-j73f

https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.2.4

https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/0ad800ef43d3b826f31a5ad8dfbb4fe05d143688

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-06-16

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00408