pacman before 5.1.3 allows directory traversal when installing a remote package via a specified URL "pacman -U <url>" due to an unsanitized file name received from a Content-Disposition header. pacman renames the downloaded package file to match the name given in this header. However, pacman did not sanitize this name, which may contain slashes, before calling rename(). A malicious server (or a network MitM if downloading over HTTP) can send a Content-Disposition header to make pacman place the file anywhere in the filesystem, potentially leading to arbitrary root code execution. Notably, this bypasses pacman's package signature checking. This occurs in curl_download_internal in lib/libalpm/dload.c.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-03-11T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T21:54:45.486Z

Reserved: 2019-03-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-9686

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-03-11T16:29:00.283

Modified: 2020-11-09T21:45:43.907

Link: CVE-2019-9686

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