What is CVE-2021-28650?

CVE-2021-28650 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNOME Gnome-Autoar, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-03-17.

How severe is CVE-2021-28650?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in GNOME Gnome-Autoar

CVE-2021-28650

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.

EPSS: 0.005 (41.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Gnome Gnome-autoar
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 34
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-28650?: CVE-2021-28650 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNOME Gnome-Autoar, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2021-03-17.
How severe is CVE-2021-28650?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.