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Ubuntu: USN-4723-1 (CVE-2020-36193): PEAR vulnerability

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Severity	CVSS	Published	Added	Modified
5	(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)	Jan 18, 2021	Feb 9, 2021	Mar 27, 2026

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jan 18, 2021

Added

Feb 9, 2021

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related issue to CVE-2020-28948.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-php-pear

References

CVE-2020-36193
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2020-36193
CWE-22
CWE-59
DEBIAN-DSA-4894
EUVD-EUVD-2021-0874
NVD-CVE-2020-36193
UBUNTU-USN-4723-1
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-0874

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