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    CVE-2005-1229

    Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.

    Published:Apr 20, 2005
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:Apr 22, 2005
    EPSS Score:0.00962
    CVSS Score:4.6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Cpio

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2026-66484 (CVSS 4.6) — GNU cpio contains a Path Traversal vulnerability in its tar archive extraction functionality. When extracting …
    CVE-2023-7216 (CVSS 5.3) — A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility. This issue could allow a remote unauthenticated …
    CVE-2023-7207 (CVSS 4.9) — Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability. This issue was introduced by reverting CVE-2015-1197 pa…
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    CVE-2019-14866 (CVSS 7.3) — In all versions of cpio before 2.13 does not properly validate input files when generating TAR archives. When …
    CVE-2016-2037 (CVSS 6.5) — The cpio_safer_name_suffix function in util.c in cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of servic…
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    References

    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc
    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txt
    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt
    http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111403177526312&w=2
    http://secunia.com/advisories/16998
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17123
    http://secunia.com/advisories/18290
    http://secunia.com/advisories/18395
    http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
    http://secunia.com/advisories/27857
    http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233
    http://www.osvdb.org/17939
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13291
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20204
    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc
    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txt
    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt
    http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
    http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111403177526312&w=2
    http://secunia.com/advisories/16998
    http://secunia.com/advisories/17123
    http://secunia.com/advisories/18290
    http://secunia.com/advisories/18395
    http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
    http://secunia.com/advisories/27857
    http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233
    http://www.osvdb.org/17939
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13291
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20204

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High