CVE-2020-36193

7.5 HIGH CISA KEV - Actively Exploited

Published: January 18, 2021 Modified: November 07, 2025

Description

Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related issue to CVE-2020-28948.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00018.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00007.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FOZNK4FIIV7FSFCJNNFWMJZTTV7NFJV2/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YKD5WEFA4WT6AVTMRAYBNXZNLWZHM7FH/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4894

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-001

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916