CVE-2020-24654

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.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4759

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4482-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-06

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-06

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YJOZ6YRNPZX5MJGVBMOCOA7N6Z4EU2OK/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LXMMXNJDYOCJRZTESIUGHG6CS4RJKECX/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00026.html

https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20200827-1.txt

https://github.com/KDE/ark/commit/8bf8c5ef07b0ac5e914d752681e470dea403a5bd

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175857

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00001.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3