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SCA: security update for pear/archive_tar (GHSA-jh5x-hfhg-78jq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 416378

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 allows an unserialization attack because phar: is blocked but PHAR: is not
 blocked. (CVE-2020-28948)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jh5x-hfhg-78jq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 416378

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28948

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28948

cwe: CWE-502