CVE-2023-7216

MediumCVSS 5.3/10Last modified Nov 6, 2026

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility. This issue could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted archive. During the extraction process, the archiver could follow symlinks outside of the intended directory, which allows files to be written in arbitrary directories through symlinks.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59 CWE-22

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	—

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7216Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249901Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7216Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249901Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 5, 2024
Last modified: Nov 6, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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