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CVE-2021-31272

critical

Description

SerenityOS before commit 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c contains a directory traversal vulnerability in tar/unzip that may lead to command execution or privilege escalation.

References

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/5713/commits/3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/5713

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/3992

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/3991

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-06-18

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0107