CVE-2020-36193

7.5

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related...

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity No user interaction

Vendor: pear
Product: Archive_Tar
Published: Jan 18, 2021
EPSS: —

Description

Tar.php in Archive_Tar through 1.4.11 allows write operations with Directory Traversal due to inadequate checking of symbolic links, a related issue to CVE-2020-28948.

php cisa nessus_scanner

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.5 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0 5.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-08-25 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: partial

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Aug 25, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Nessus	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/236439	Jun 02, 2025

Vulnerability detail