PT-2021-19230 · Unknown · Serenityos

Bblenard · Published 2021-06-18 · Updated 2021-06-22 · CVE-2021-31272

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SerenityOS versions prior to commit 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c

Description The issue is a directory traversal vulnerability in the tar/unzip functionality, which may lead to command execution or privilege escalation.

Recommendations For versions prior to commit 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the tar/unzip functionality until a patch is available.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-31272

Affected Products

Serenityos

References · 8

• https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/5713/commits/3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31272 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31272 · Security Note
• https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/3991 · Note
• https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/5713 · Note
• https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/issues/3992 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/16682 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/25564 · Telegram Post