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CVE-2020-28949
Critical
91.7
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 84.55%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Aug 2022
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- Not mapped
- Published
- 19 Nov 2020
- Last modified 7 Nov 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time