CVE-2023-52138

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    CVE-2023-52138

    Published: 5 Feb 2024Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: Path traversal via crafted cpio archives in Engrampa archivers

    Details: Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. Engrampa is found to be vulnerable to a Path Traversal vulnerability that can be leveraged to achieve full Remote Command Execution (RCE) on the target. While handling CPIO archives, the Engrampa Archive manager follows symlink, cpio by default will follow stored symlinks while extracting and the Archiver will not check the symlink location, which leads to arbitrary file writes to unintended locations. When the victim extracts the archive, the attacker can craft a malicious cpio or ISO archive to achieve RCE on the target system. This vulnerability was fixed in commit 63d5dfa.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/02/msg00011.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4IOJ3QWXTZGCXFEHP72ELY22PZ4AX2CB/, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/52xxx/CVE-2023-52138.json, https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa/security/advisories/GHSA-c98h-v39w-3r7v, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-52138, https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa/commit/63d5dfa9005c6b16d0f0ccd888cc859fca78f970

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2f0ce73637064d5fa57c5e801b7c71761823a63d

    Affected versions

    v1.26.1
    v1.26.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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    High