CVE-2020-25031

HIGH 7.8CVE-2020-25031 · Published 31/08/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-25031 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting checkinstall (canonical).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.56%, higher than 46.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
checkinstall canonical	`= 1.6.2`	No fix yet

checkinstall 1.6.2, when used to create a package that contains a symlink, may trigger the creation of a mode 0777 executable file.

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