CVE-2023-7207
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.9 Medium
- Published
- Jan 5, 2024
- Updated
- May 7, 2025
- Reserved
- Jan 5, 2024
Description
Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability. This issue was introduced by reverting CVE-2015-1197 patches which had caused a regression in --no-absolute-filenames. Upstream has since provided a proper fix to --no-absolute-filenames.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.9 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N | canonical |
Weaknesses
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Debian cpioDebian |
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References
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628patch
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163issue-tracking
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8mailing-list
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207issue-tracking
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
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