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CVE-2020-36314

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.9 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: 2021-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.38.0, as used by GNOME Shell 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-2020-11736.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34
• GNOME File-Roller: through 3.38.0

References

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/e970f4966bf388f6e7c277357c8b186c645683ae
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/108
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KJBZVCHQ4SSX2JAJZVJ5J4P3GEMXJ75/
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/e970f4966bf388f6e7c277357c8b186c645683ae
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/108
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KJBZVCHQ4SSX2JAJZVJ5J4P3GEMXJ75/

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