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CVE-2020-16116

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-08-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

In kerfuffle/jobs.cpp in KDE Ark before 20.08.0, a crafted archive can install files outside the extraction directory via ../ directory traversal.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 20.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• KDE ark: before 20.08.0 — fixed in 20.08.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: KDE ark 20.08.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00023.html
• https://github.com/KDE/ark/commits/master
• https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/-/commit/0df592524fed305d6fbe74ddf8a196bc9ffdb92f
• https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200730-1.txt
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00026.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PMVXSQNCBILVSJLX32ODNU6KUY2X7HRM/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYRKQKUVU45ANH5TFYCYZN6HVP34N3UL/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202008-03
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4461-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4738
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00023.html
• https://github.com/KDE/ark/commits/master

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