CVE-2020-27637: The R programming language’s default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability…

PriorityP356critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.24%

80.6th percentile

The R programming language’s default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. Update to version 4.0.3

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	r-base	< r-base 4.0.3-1 (bookworm)	r-base 4.0.3-1 (bookworm)
r-project	cran	< 4.0.3	4.0.3

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.8CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.010.0CRITICALAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv9.8CRITICAL

vendor_debian9.8CRITICAL

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