CVE-2020-27637: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

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....

CVE-2020-27637

The CVE-2020-27637 entry concerns the R language’s default package manager CRAN, affected by a path traversal vulnerability that can lead to server compromise. Affected are packages installed via the R CMD install CLI or install.packages(), with the underlying issue described as a path traversal ...