Candidate: CVE-2020-27637
PublicDate: 2021-01-12 04:15:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-27637
 https://labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2
 https://www.r-project.org/foundation/
Description:
 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
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Mitigation:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]


Patches_r-base:
upstream_r-base: released (4.0.3)
precise/esm_r-base: DNE
trusty_r-base: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_r-base: needed
xenial_r-base: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
bionic_r-base: needed
focal_r-base: needed
groovy_r-base: ignored (reached end-of-life)
hirsute_r-base: not-affected (4.0.3-1)
impish_r-base: not-affected (4.0.3-1)
jammy_r-base: not-affected (4.0.3-1)
devel_r-base: not-affected (4.0.3-1)