An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91. It allows a single ./../ path traversal via a filename contained in a TAR…

Description

An issue was discovered in GNOME file-roller before 3.29.91. It allows a single ./../ path traversal via a filename contained in a TAR archive, possibly overwriting a file during extraction.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794337 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/commit/57268e51e59b61c9e3125eb0f65551c7084297e2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/commit/e8fb3e24dae711e4fb0d6777e0016cdda8787bc1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• USN-4139-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-4537 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 20190929 [SECURITY] [DSA 4537-1] file-roller security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20190930 [SECURITY] [DLA 1938-1] file-roller security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 01:17 UTC.