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 breakdown
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Affected products
- Debian / Debian cpio0 – 2.14+dfsg-1
References
- MISChttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163
- MAILING_LISThttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8
- CONFIRMhttps://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1