CVE-2023-7207

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 v3 4.9 MEDIUM

4.9^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.2 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1	Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163	Issue Tracking
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207	Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628	Mailing List Patch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8	Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1	Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163	Issue Tracking
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207	Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628	Mailing List Patch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8	Mailing List

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cpio:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-02-29 01:42

Updated : 2025-08-26 17:19

NVD link : CVE-2023-7207

Mitre link : CVE-2023-7207

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-7207

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Products Affected

gnu

cpio

CWE

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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