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CVE-2023-7207

Published: 29 February 2024

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
ccdm94
bionic and earlier are not affected by this issue as the CVE patch
for CVE-2015-1197 was not reverted in these releases.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.9

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
cpio
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(see notes)
focal
Released (2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4)
jammy
Released (2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
mantic
Released (2.13+dfsg-7.1ubuntu0.1)
noble Not vulnerable
(2.15+dfsg-1ubuntu1)
trusty Not vulnerable
(see notes)
upstream
Released (2.14)
xenial Not vulnerable
(see notes)
Patches:
upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.9
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N