CVE-2023-7207

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.9/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian	Debian cpio	< 2.14+dfsg-1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163Issue Tracking
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628Mailing List, Patch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163Issue Tracking
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628Mailing List, Patch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8Mailing List

Timeline

Published: Feb 29, 2024
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Analyzed

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