CVE-2020-27637

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    CVE-2020-27637

    Published: 12 Jan 2021Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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

    References: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-07, https://www.r-project.org/foundation/, https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2

    Affected packages

    Package

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    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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