UBUNTU-CVE-2020-23171

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-23171

    Published: 10 Aug 2021Last Modified: 20 May 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-23171

    Summary:

    Details: A vulnerability in all versions of Nim-lang allows unauthenticated attackers to write files to arbitrary directories via a crafted zip file with dot-slash characters included in the name of the crafted file.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-23171, https://github.com/nim-lang/zip/issues/54, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-23171

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nim

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nim?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.11.2+dfsg1-4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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