CVE-2023-7207

medium

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.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-02-29

Updated: 2025-08-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N