CVE-2020-36241: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar through 0.2.4, as used by GNOME Shell, Nautilus, and other software, allows Directory Traversal during extraction because it lacks a check of whether a file's parent is a symlink to a directory outside of the intended extraction location.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 34 only
• Gnome Gnome-Autoar: up to and including 0.2.4

Published 2021-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.