CVE-2019-9686
pacman before 5.1.3 allows directory traversal when installing a remote package via a specified URL "pacman -U <url>" due to an unsanitized file name received from a Content-Disposition header. pacman
02 Description
pacman before 5.1.3 allows directory traversal when installing a remote package via a specified URL "pacman -U <url>" due to an unsanitized file name received from a Content-Disposition header. pacman
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.38% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-03-11 16:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 21:54Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-03-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d7ac19ecdabcdb70bf9e8b52915d7d96edf646c1b93305436b99820109af9eb5
05 Affected products
06 References
- git.archlinux.orghttps://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=d197d8ab82cf10650487518fb968067897a12775
- git.archlinux.orghttps://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?h=release/5.1.x&id=1bf767234363f7ad5933af3f7ce267c123017bde
- git.archlinux.orghttps://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=9702703633bec2c007730006de2aeec8587dfc84
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- pacman Fixed in 5.1.3-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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