Vulnerability CVE-2021-28650


Published: 2021-03-17

Description:
autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, 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 in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36241.

Type:

CWE-59

(Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Gnome -> Gnome-autoar 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 

 References:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/8109c368c6cfdb593faaf698c2bf5da32bb1ace4
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BN5TVQ7OHZEGY6AGFLAZWCVCI53RYNHQ/

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