CVE-2023-7207

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-02-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

GNU cpio: 2.13

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8

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