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CVE-2021-28650

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: March 17, 2021 at 05:51 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:46 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraGnome Autoar

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36241.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
34
Gnome Autoar· Gnome
95%
v < 0.3.1
Affected range stops below 0.3.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-autoar/-/commit/8109c368c6cfdb593faaf698c2bf5da32bb1ace4
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BN5TVQ7OHZEGY6AGFLAZWCVCI53RYNHQ/
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-10

CVSS

5.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59

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