CVE-2020-27637

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 12, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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