Vigil@nce - GNOME File-roller: directory traversal via Directory Symlink
June 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data creation/edition.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 20/04/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories via Directory Symlink of
GNOME File-roller, in order to create a file outside the service
root path.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/GNOME-File-roller-directory-traversal-via-Directory-Symlink-32068