CVE-2020-27637

critical

Description

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

References

https://www.r-project.org/foundation/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-07

https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-01-12

Updated: 2024-01-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical