USN-6755-1

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    USN-6755-1

    Published: 29 Apr 2024Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: cpio vulnerabilities

    Details: Ingo Brückl discovered that cpio contained a path traversal vulnerability. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially crafted cpio archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files outside the target directory on the host, even if using the option --no-absolute-filenames.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6755-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-7207

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cpio

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4?arch=source&distro=focal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4

    Affected versions

    2.12+dfsg-9

    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