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CVE-2019-16680

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-16680 is a path traversal vulnerability found in GNOME file-roller versions prior to 3.29.91, affecting distributions like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 4.3) allows an attacker to potentially overwrite files during TAR archive extraction by embedding a single "./../" sequence in a filename, requiring user interaction to trigger. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.29.91CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:file-roller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0213 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: file-roller-0:3.28.1-3.el8
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: file-roller

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-16680Moderate

file-roller: path traversal vulnerability via a specially crafted filename contained in malicious archive

Mar 14, 2018

References

bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/file-roller/commit/57268e51e59b61c9e3125eb0f65551c7084297e2
PatchThird Party Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/file-roller/commit/e8fb3e24dae711e4fb0d6777e0016cdda8787bc1
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00032.html
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Sep/57
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4139-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2019/dsa-4537
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Third Party Advisory