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CVE-2020-36314

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-36314 is a directory traversal vulnerability in GNOME file-roller versions through 3.38.0, affecting products like Fedora, where it fails to properly check for symlinked parent directories during archive extraction. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.9, indicating a low attack complexity and impact, primarily affecting integrity and availability with user interaction required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.38.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:file-roller:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.9LOW

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
45.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0061 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 106 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.2 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: file-roller-0:3.28.1-4.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-36314Low

file-roller: directory traversal via directory symlink pointing outside of the target directory (incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11736)

Feb 15, 2021

References

gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/file-roller/-/commit/e970f4966bf388f6e7c277357c8b186c645683ae
PatchVendor Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/108
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KJBZVCHQ4SSX2JAJZVJ5J4P3GEMXJ75