CVE record · CVE-2021-31566

Symlink following in libarchive

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0039 · 33rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 23 Aug 2022, 00:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given libarchive
  • affected Fixed in libarchive 3.5.2
Identifiers
CVE-2021-31566
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59
Published
23 Aug 2022
Updated
2 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0039, the 33rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 23 Aug 2022, 00:00 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 23 Aug 2022, 16:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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