CVE-2015-2304

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
libarchive: through 3.1.2
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0106.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00065.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3180
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:157
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/16/7
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035996
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2549-1
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/59357157706d47c365b2227739e17daba3607526
https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/110
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/libarchive-discuss/dN9y1VvE1Qk/Z9uerigjQn0J
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03

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