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Vulnerability · Published Aug 30, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-14352

High 8.0

In plain English

A high-severity path traversal in librepo. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.5% (higher than 85% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.0High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.5%top 15.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in librepo in versions before 1.12.1. 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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a librepo librepo versions before 1.12.1

Weakness: CWE-22

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