Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-27637
CVE-2020-27637
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
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Affected products
2- R programming language/CRANdescription
- Range: <4.0.3
Patches
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References
3- labs.bishopfox.com/advisories/cran-version-4.0.2nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- www.r-project.org/foundation/nvdVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-07nvd
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