GHSA-rpw6-9xfx-jvcx

Directory Traversal in Archive_Tar

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2020-36193

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Packagist	pear/archive_tar	< 1.4.13	1.4.13

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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. ### :exclamation: Note: There was an [initial fix](https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916) for this vulnerability made in version `1.4.12`. That fix introduced a bug which was [fixed in 1.4.13](https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/pull/36). Therefore we have set the first-patched-version to `1.4.13` which the earliest working version that avoids this vulnerability.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36193 advisory
https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/35 web
https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/cde460582ff389404b5b3ccb59374e9b389de916 web
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2021-001 web
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4894 web
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-36193 web
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23 web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YKD5WEFA4WT6AVTMRAYBNXZNLWZHM7FH web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FOZNK4FIIV7FSFCJNNFWMJZTTV7NFJV2 web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YKD5WEFA4WT6AVTMRAYBNXZNLWZHM7FH web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FOZNK4FIIV7FSFCJNNFWMJZTTV7NFJV2 web
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR web
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00007.html web
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00018.html web
https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar package
https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/pear/archive_tar/CVE-2020-36193.yaml web