CVE-2020-27637
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.2%
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
How to fix CVE-2020-27637
To remediate CVE-2020-27637, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/r-base—upgrade to 4.0.3-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-27637 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.0.3-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |