CVE-2020-14352: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 8.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in librepo in versions before 1.12.1. A directory traversal vulnerability was found where it failed to sanitize paths in remote repository metadata. An attacker controlling a remote repository may be able to copy files outside of the destination directory on the targeted system via path traversal. This flaw could potentially result in system compromise via the overwriting of critical system files. The highest threat from this flaw is to users that make use of untrusted third-party repositories.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only; version 32 only; version 33 only
• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.2 only
• Red Hat Librepo: before 1.12.1 (fixed in 1.12.1)

Published 2020-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.