{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 4 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-28948 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2020-28948 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Nov 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-28948 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-28948 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Nov 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-28948 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28948/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28948/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-28948","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28948/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-28948","record":{"aliases":["CLEANSTART-2024-WZ69963","DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28948","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28948"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"PHP Archive_Tar library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code via deserialization in the Archive_Tar library by bypassing phar protocol filters.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"deserialization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"drupal","vendor":"drupal"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"archive_tar","vendor":"php"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-502","name":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data"}],"description":"Archive_Tar through 1.4.10 allows an unserialization attack because phar: is blocked but PHAR: is not blocked.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2020-11-27","github_poc":3,"max_poc_stars":6,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2020-11-27T11:21:46Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/0x240x23elu/CVE-2020-28948-and-CVE-2020-28949","stars":6,"title":null},{"date":"2021-05-24T15:36:16Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/nopdata/cve-2020-28948","stars":0,"title":null},{"date":"2022-10-03T10:10:11Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/JinHao-L/PoC-for-CVE-2020-28948-CVE-2020-28949","stars":0,"title":null}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Deserialization in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28948","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","drupal:drupal","fedoraproject:fedora"],"type":"deserialization","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":11,"next":{"headline":"PEAR Archive_Tar Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2020-28949"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28947"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2020-11-19","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can execute arbitrary code via deserialization in the Archive_Tar library by bypassing phar protocol filters.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28948/"}