CVE-2020-24654 Information

Description

In KDE Ark before 20.08.1 a crafted TAR archive with symlinks can install files outside the extraction directory as demonstrated by a write operation to a user’s home directory.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00001.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175857 https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/8bf8c5ef07b0ac5e914d752681e470dea403a5bd https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXMMXNJDYOCJRZTESIUGHG6CS4RJKECX/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJOZ6YRNPZX5MJGVBMOCOA7N6Z4EU2OK/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-06 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4482-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4759

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

3.3