CVE-2021-31272: Serenityos

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SerenityOS before commit 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c contains a directory traversal vulnerability in tar/unzip that may lead to command execution or privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Serenityos Serenityos: before 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c (fixed in 3844e8569689dd476064a0759d704bc64fb3ca2c)

Published 2021-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.