Is pear/archive_tar affected by CVE-2020-28948?

Packagist pear/archive_tar is affected in <1.4.11.

Is CVE-2020-28948 being exploited?

Yes — it is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list.

high exploited in the wild

CVE-2020-28948

Q: Is CVE-2020-28948 being exploited?

Yes — it is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list.

Packagist · pear/archive_tar • Packagist · drupal/core

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities through filename manipulation in Archive_Tar

Severity: high
EPSS: 47.5% (p99)
Also known as: CVE-2020-28949, GHSA-75c5-f4gw-38r9, GHSA-jh5x-hfhg-78jq, BIT-drupal-2020-28948, BIT-drupal-2020-28949, DRUPAL-CORE-2020-013
Published: 2021-04-22

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28949
https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33
https://github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/commit/0670a05fdab997036a3fc3ef113b8f5922e574da

Related advisories

CVE-2020-36193 — high · Packagist/pear/archive_tar

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