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SCA: security update for pear/archive_tar (GHSA-75c5-f4gw-38r9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411833

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2020-28949)

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 411833

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: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28949

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:F/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

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 9/15/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (PEAR Archive_Tar 1.4.10 Arbitrary File Write)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28949

cwe: CWE-74