{
"id": "GHSA-75c5-f4gw-38r9",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-28949"
],
"details": "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. See: https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33",
"summary": "Multiple vulnerabilities through filename manipulation in Archive_Tar",
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.4.11"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "pear/archive_tar",
"ecosystem": "Packagist"
}
}
],
"modified": "2025-10-22T17:56:52Z",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H"
}
],
"published": "2021-04-22T16:20:59Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28949",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/0670a05fdab997036a3fc3ef113b8f5922e574da",
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{
"url": "https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013",
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},
{
"url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4817",
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},
{
"url": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-28949",
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},
{
"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23",
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},
{
"url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] /message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N",
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"url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] /message/KWM4CTMEGAC4I2CHYNJVSROY4CVXVEUT",
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{
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00045.html",
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"url": "https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar",
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{
"url": "https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/pear/archive_tar/CVE-2020-28949.yaml",
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{
"url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161095/PEAR-Archive_Tar-Arbitrary-File-Write.html",
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-74"
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"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2020-11-19T19:15:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2021-03-23T00:20:31Z"
}
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