CVE-2020-14352 Information

Description

A flaw was found in librepo in versions before 1.12.1. A directory traversal vulnerability was found where it failed to sanitize paths in remote repository metadata. An attacker controlling a remote repository may be able to copy files outside of the destination directory on the targeted system via path traversal. This flaw could potentially result in system compromise via the overwriting of critical system files. The highest threat from this flaw is to users that make use of untrusted third-party repositories.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00072.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00055.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866498 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/33RX4P5R5YL4NZSFSE4NOX37X6YCXAS4/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OOMDEQBRJ7SO2QWL7H23G3VV2VSCUYOY/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XDMHVY7OMIJNSPVZ2GJWHT77Z5V3YJ55/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.0