CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24654
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-09-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
In KDE Ark before 20.08.1, a crafted TAR archive with symlinks can install files outside the extraction directory, as demonstrated by a write operation to a user's home directory.
Affected configurations
• kde ark (< 20.08.1)
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 20.04
• debian debian linux 10.0
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• opensuse leap 15.1
• opensuse leap 15.2
• debian debian linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 33
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175857 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/8bf8c5ef07b0ac5e914d752681e470dea403a5bd Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00026.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXMMXNJDYOCJRZTESIUGHG6CS4RJKECX/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJOZ6YRNPZX5MJGVBMOCOA7N6Z4EU2OK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4482-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4759 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175857 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/8bf8c5ef07b0ac5e914d752681e470dea403a5bd Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00026.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXMMXNJDYOCJRZTESIUGHG6CS4RJKECX/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJOZ6YRNPZX5MJGVBMOCOA7N6Z4EU2OK/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4482-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4759 Third Party Advisory