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CVE-2020-4053

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-4053 describes a path traversal vulnerability in Helm versions 3.0.0 through 3.2.3, affecting the installation of plugins from HTTP-served tar archives. A highly privileged attacker could exploit this by crafting a malicious plugin archive to write files outside the intended directory. While the CVSS score is 6.8 (Medium) with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:helm:helm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.7LOW

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 4,937 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: helm.sh/helm/v3Fixed in: 3.2.4

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-qq3j-xp49-j73flow

Plugin archive directory traversal in Helm

Jun 23, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-4053Low

helm: allows path traversal when installing plugins from a tar archive over HTTP

Jun 16, 2020

References

github.com / helm/helm/commit/0ad800ef43d3b826f31a5ad8dfbb4fe05d143688
Patch
github.com / helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.2.4
Release Notes
github.com / helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-qq3j-xp49-j73f
Vendor Advisory