PEAR — known exploited vulnerabilities
The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (KEV) lists vulnerabilities that CISA has confirmed are being exploited in the wild; U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate each entry by its due date. This page joins the KEV entries for PEAR with NVD CVSS scores and CISA's ransomware-campaign flag. See our methodology or browse all CVEs.
Key findings
CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog lists 2 PEAR vulnerabilities confirmed as exploited in the wild across 1 product; none are currently flagged as used in known ransomware campaigns. All entries affect a single product: Archive_Tar. CISA added 2 entries in 2022, compared with 0 in 2021. Across the 2 entries with an NVD CVSS score (100% of the total), the average score is 7.7; none is rated critical by NVD. The most recent addition is CVE-2020-36193 (PEAR Archive_Tar Improper Link Resolution Vulnerability), added on 2022-08-25.
Affected products
| Product | Entries | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Archive_Tar | 2 | 100% |
Entries added per year
By date added to the KEV catalog
Exploited PEAR vulnerabilities (2)
Newest first. CVSS scores from NVD where available.
| CVE | Product | Vulnerability | Date added | Ransomware | CVSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-36193 | Archive_Tar | PEAR Archive_Tar Improper Link Resolution Vulnerability | 2022-08-25 | — | HIGH7.5 |
| CVE-2020-28949 | Archive_Tar | PEAR Archive_Tar Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability | 2022-08-25 | — | HIGH7.8 |
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, joined with NIST NVD CVSS data. Vendor names are normalized across spellings. Compare all vendors.

