vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary filesystem access (CVE-2020-24654)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 2, 2020
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

In KDE Ark before 20.08.1, a crafted TAR archive with symlinks can install files outside the extraction directory, as demonstrated by a write operation to a user's home directory.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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