⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2022-08-25. Federal agencies required to patch by 2022-09-15. Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions..
CVE-2020-28949
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
93.0%
top 0.22%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2022-08-25
Due 2022-09-15
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 19
KEV addedAug 25
KEV dueSep 15
Latest updateSep 3
CISA 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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages6 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 9.0, Fedora 32, 33, 34, 35