CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2015-2304

    CVE-2015-2304

    Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive.

    Published:Jan 16, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Mar 15, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.02978
    CVSS Score:6.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Canonical
    Product
    Ubuntu Linux
    Vendor
    Libarchive
    Product
    Libarchive
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse

    Exploits

    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-13476 (CVSS 7.3) — IBM Informix Dynamic Server 14.10, 15.0, and 12.10 could allow an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary co…
    CVE-2026-13367 (CVSS 7.8) — IBM Informix Dynamic Server 14.10, and 15.0 contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the oninit s…
    CVE-2026-47337 (CVSS 3.3) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contain SAUCE patches with a possible NULL pointer dereference in the handling …
    CVE-2026-47336 (CVSS 3.3) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8 contains SAUCE patches with a possible use of an uninitialized variable in AppArmor AF_INET/A…
    CVE-2026-47335 (CVSS 5.5) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8 contains SAUCE patches with a possible NULL pointer dereference in the handling of AppArmor n…
    CVE-2026-47334 (CVSS 5.5) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contain AppArmor SAUCE patches which incorrectly sleep while holding a spinlock…
    CVE-2026-47333 (CVSS 7.8) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contain AppArmor SAUCE patches which can potentially incorrectly compute the si…
    CVE-2026-47332 (CVSS 5.5) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8, 6.17 and 7.0 contain AppArmor SAUCE patches which incorrectly validate the size of an intern…
    CVE-2026-47331 (CVSS 7.8) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8 contains AppArmor SAUCE patches which fail to acquire a lock when modifying a linked list. An…
    CVE-2026-47330 (CVSS 3.3) — Ubuntu Linux 6.8, 7.17 and 7.0 contain AppArmor SAUCE patches which can, under certain circumstances, use an u…

    References

    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0106.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00065.html
    http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3180
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:157
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/16/7
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035996
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2549-1
    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/59357157706d47c365b2227739e17daba3607526
    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/110
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/libarchive-discuss/dN9y1VvE1Qk/Z9uerigjQn0J
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
    https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:22.libarchive.asc
    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0106.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00065.html
    http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3180
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:157
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/16/7
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035996
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2549-1
    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/59357157706d47c365b2227739e17daba3607526
    https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/110
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/libarchive-discuss/dN9y1VvE1Qk/Z9uerigjQn0J
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03
    https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:22.libarchive.asc

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    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