Medium severity · published Feb 29, 2024
CVE-2023-7207
Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability
4.9
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 60% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CP
Cpio · Gnu
2.13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7207
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-7207
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163
Third Party Advisory
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207
Mailing List
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628
Mailing List
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8
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