CVE-2020-11736

Severity: low (CVSS 3.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.36.1 allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, 20.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
GNOME File-Roller: through 3.36.1

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/21dfcdbfe258984db89fb65243a1a888924e45a0
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-06
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-2/
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/21dfcdbfe258984db89fb65243a1a888924e45a0
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00013.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-06
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-2/

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