VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-27637

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability2.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-01-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Primary references