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CVE-2020-36241

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, 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 to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34
• Gnome-Autoar: through 0.2.4

References

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/adb067e645732fdbe7103516e506d09eb6a54429
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/issues/7
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BN5TVQ7OHZEGY6AGFLAZWCVCI53RYNHQ/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-10
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/adb067e645732fdbe7103516e506d09eb6a54429
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/issues/7
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BN5TVQ7OHZEGY6AGFLAZWCVCI53RYNHQ/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-10

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