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CVE-2015-2304

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Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive.

References

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:22.libarchive.asc

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/libarchive-discuss/dN9y1VvE1Qk/Z9uerigjQn0J

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/110

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/59357157706d47c365b2227739e17daba3607526

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2549-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035996

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/16/7

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:157

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3180

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00065.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0106.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-03-15

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02978

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