CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-27637
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
The R programming language’s default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. Update to version 4.0.3
Affected configurations
• r-project cran (< 4.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ Vendor Advisory
- https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.r-project.org/foundation/ Vendor Advisory