CVE-2020-36241
gnome-autoar: Directory traversal via directory symbolic links pointing outside of the destination directory
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · November 6, 2020
Updated · November 22, 2025
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 3.9CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')