CVE-2020-11736

Publication date 13 April 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

fr-archive-libarchive.c in GNOME file-roller through 3.36.1 allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
file-roller	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.36.1-1ubuntu0.1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 3.32.2-1ubuntu0.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.28.0-1ubuntu1.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 3.9 · Low

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.9 · Low
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4332-1
File Roller vulnerability
20 April 2020

USN-4332-2
File Roller vulnerability
27 April 2020