CVE-2020-4053

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In Helm greater than or equal to 3.0.0 and less than 3.2.4, a path traversal attack is possible when installing Helm plugins from a tar archive over HTTP. It is possible for a malicious plugin author to inject a relative path into a plugin archive, and copy a file outside of the intended directory. This has been fixed in 3.2.4.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Helm Project	Helm	>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.4

References

https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/0ad800ef43d3b826f31a5ad8dfbb4fe05d143688Patch
https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.2.4Release Notes
https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-qq3j-xp49-j73fVendor Advisory
https://github.com/helm/helm/commit/0ad800ef43d3b826f31a5ad8dfbb4fe05d143688Patch
https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v3.2.4Release Notes
https://github.com/helm/helm/security/advisories/GHSA-qq3j-xp49-j73fVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jun 16, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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