CVE-2020-25031: Canonical Checkinstall

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

checkinstall 1.6.2, when used to create a package that contains a symlink, may trigger the creation of a mode 0777 executable file.

Affected products

• Canonical Checkinstall: version 1.6.2 only

Published 2020-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.