CVE-2023-7207

low-risk
Published 2024-02-29

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.06% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
4
CVSS 4.9/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Gnu

References (10)

Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163
Third Party Advisory https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207
Mailing List https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5...
Mailing List https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
Issue Tracking https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163
Third Party Advisory https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207
Mailing List https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5...
Mailing List https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8
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low-risk
Severity 20/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal