CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-28650

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-03-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-03-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59

Description

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36241.

Affected configurations

• gnome gnome-autoar (< 0.3.1) • fedoraproject fedora 34

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References