CVE-2021-28650: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

autoar-extractor.c in GNOME gnome-autoar before 0.3.1, 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 in certain complex situations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-36241.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 34 only
• Gnome Gnome-Autoar: before 0.3.1 (fixed in 0.3.1)

Published 2021-03-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.