VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-7669

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.83%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-09-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

This affects all versions of package github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/tarutil. It is vulnerable to both leading and non-leading relative path traversal attacks in tar file extraction.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Primary references