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CVE-2023-7216

Cpio: extraction allows symlinks which enables remote command execution

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  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • cpio

    Version range not reported

  • cpio

    Version range not reported

  • cpio

    Version range not reported

  • cpio

    Version range not reported

References 2

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