CVE-2020-27637 (GCVE-0-2020-27637)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-12 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The R programming language’s default package manager CRAN is affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. This vulnerability affects packages installed via the R CMD install cli command or the install.packages() function from the interpreter. Update to version 4.0.3
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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