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CVE-2005-1229

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.

Affected products

• GNU cpio: through 2.6

References

• http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111403177526312&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16998
• http://secunia.com/advisories/17123
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18290
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18395
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27857
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846

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