CVE-2020-16116: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In kerfuffle/jobs.cpp in KDE Ark before 20.08.0, a crafted archive can install files outside the extraction directory via ../ directory traversal.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only; version 20.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only; version 32 only
• Kde Ark: before 20.08.0 (fixed in 20.08.0)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only

Published 2020-08-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.