CVE-2020-28949: Injection Vulnerability

November 19, 2020 (updated September 25, 2021)

Archive_Tar has :// filename sanitization only to address phar attacks, and thus any other stream-wrapper attack (such as file:// to overwrite files) can still succeed.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/161095/PEAR-Archive_Tar-Arbitrary-File-Write.html
github.com/pear/Archive_Tar/issues/33
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28949

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