{"id":"CVE-2020-28949","aliases":["BIT-drupal-2020-28948","BIT-drupal-2020-28949","CVE-2020-28948","DRUPAL-CORE-2020-013","GHSA-75c5-f4gw-38r9","GHSA-jh5x-hfhg-78jq"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28949","summary":"Multiple vulnerabilities through filename manipulation in Archive_Tar","details":"Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 has `://` filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as `file://` to overwrite files) can still succeed. See: https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33","published":"2020-11-19T19:15:11.937Z","modified":"2026-10-24T10:50:03.666192988Z","cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":{"score":0.84554,"percentile":0.99688,"asOf":"2026-09-15"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":6,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Packagist","name":"pear/archive_tar","fixedVersion":"1.4.11"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/0670a05fdab997036a3fc3ef113b8f5922e574da","label":"pear/Archive_Tar@0670a05"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-28949"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00045.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4V35LBRM6HBCXBVCITKQ4UEBTXO2EG7B/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KSFM672XW3X6BR7TVKRD63SLZGKK437/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWM4CTMEGAC4I2CHYNJVSROY4CVXVEUT/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NBYZSHYTIOBK6V7C4N7TP6KIKCRKLVWP/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-23"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4817"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2020-013"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161095/PEAR-Archive_Tar-Arbitrary-File-Write.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28949"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/0670a05fdab997036a3fc3ef113b8f5922e574da"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NBYZSHYTIOBK6V7C4N7TP6KIKCRKLVWP"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWM4CTMEGAC4I2CHYNJVSROY4CVXVEUT"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KSFM672XW3X6BR7TVKRD63SLZGKK437"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4V35LBRM6HBCXBVCITKQ4UEBTXO2EG7B"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VJQQYDAOWHD6RDITDRPHFW7WY6BS3V5N"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NBYZSHYTIOBK6V7C4N7TP6KIKCRKLVWP"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KWM4CTMEGAC4I2CHYNJVSROY4CVXVEUT"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5KSFM672XW3X6BR7TVKRD63SLZGKK437"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4V35LBRM6HBCXBVCITKQ4UEBTXO2EG7B"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42GPGVVFTLJYAKRI75IVB5R45NYQGEUR"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/pear/archive_tar/CVE-2020-28949.yaml"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-10-24T10:50:03.666192988Z"}}