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CVE-2020-9308

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-9308 is a high-severity vulnerability in libarchive versions prior to 3.4.2, affecting various distributions including Canonical and Fedora. It allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (SIGSEGV) or other unspecified impacts by providing a crafted RAR5 archive with an invalid header. While the CVSS score is 8.8 (High) due to potential for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.4.0, < 3.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
19.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0225 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-9308Moderate

libarchive: attempts to unpack a RAR5 file with an invalid or corrupted header leads to a SIGSEGV

Feb 2, 2020

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / libarchive/libarchive/pull/1326
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / libarchive/libarchive/pull/1326/commits/94821008d6eea81e315c5881cdf739202961040a
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6OTE7GWASH2ZOVG5H3HEN5PR6B3KF7JB
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J76F7VU7HC3GBKG5SAKTRBOFOI3RGO6M
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-28
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4293-1
Third Party Advisory