CVE-2023-7207 (GCVE-0-2023-7207)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-05 00:39 – Updated: 2025-05-07 20:19
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Summary
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.
Severity
4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Debian Debian cpio Affected: 0 , < 2.14+dfsg-1 (semver)
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Credits
Ingo Brückl
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