Vulnerability CVE-2020-24654
Published: 2020-09-02

Description:
In KDE Ark before 20.08.1, a crafted TAR archive with symlinks can install files outside the extraction directory, as demonstrated by a write operation to a user's home directory.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Opensuse -> LEAP 
KDE -> ARK 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00001.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175857
https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/8bf8c5ef07b0ac5e914d752681e470dea403a5bd
https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXMMXNJDYOCJRZTESIUGHG6CS4RJKECX/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4482-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4759
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