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CVE-2020-7669

7.5 highEPSS 1.8%

High (7.5) in u-root u-root. EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/u-root/u-root 0.9.0.

This affects all versions of package github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/tarutil. It is vulnerable to both leading and non-leading relative path traversal attacks in tar file extraction.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 78% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-22
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-75qf-wgfj-v652Gogithub.com/u-root/u-root<0.9.00.9.0
GO-2022-0805Gogithub.com/u-root/u-root<0.9.00.9.0

References

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