Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-11736

Title: GNOME file-roller Directory Traversal

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-11736.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Apr 13, 2020

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.9 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.77%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-11736: 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.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/21dfcdbfe258984db89fb65243a1a888924e45a0 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00013.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-06 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-2/ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/21dfcdbfe258984db89fb65243a1a888924e45a0 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00013.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202009-06 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/4332-2/

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.9

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-11736 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 13, 2020 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.