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CVE-2020-14352

Public on 2020-08-30
Modified on 2020-12-08
Description

A flaw was found in librepo. A directory traversal vulnerability was found where it failed to sanitize paths in remote repository metadata. An attacker controlling a remote repository may be able to copy files outside of the destination directory on the targeted system via path traversal. This flaw could potentially result in system compromise via the overwriting of critical system files. The highest threat from this flaw is to users that make use of untrusted third-party repositories.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
8.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core librepo 2020-12-08 20:55 ALAS2-2020-1568

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 8.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H