CVE-2020-28949: PEAR Archive_Tar Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
High · CVSS 7.8 (CVSS 3.1)KEV known exploitedEPSS 84.6%, 100th percentilePublished Updated Assigner: mitre
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: PEAR Archive_Tar Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Unknown.
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
PEAR: Archive_Tar
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/161095/PEAR-Archive_Tar-Arbitrary-File-Write.html (opens in new tab)
- github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33 (opens in new tab)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00045.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GP… (opens in new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4V35… (opens in new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KSF… (opens in new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWM4… (opens in new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NBYZ… (opens in new tab)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQ… (opens in new tab)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23 (opens in new tab)
- www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4817 (opens in new tab)
- www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013 (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)