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CVE-2020-28949

PEAR Archive_Tar Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild

This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-08-25. Federal due date: 2022-09-15.

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Impact

Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
PhpArchive Tar
before 1.4.12
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 9.0, 10.0
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 32, 33, 34, 35
DrupalDrupal
from 7.0 before 7.75
from 8.0.0 before 8.9.10
from 8.8.0 before 8.8.12
from 9.0.0 before 9.0.9

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