{"id":"USN-6755-1","summary":"cpio vulnerabilities","details":"Ingo Brückl discovered that cpio contained a path traversal vulnerability.\nIf a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially\ncrafted cpio archive, an attacker could possibly use this issue to write\narbitrary files outside the target directory on the host, even if using the\noption --no-absolute-filenames.\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:43:41Z","published":"2024-04-29T11:23:13Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2023-7207"],"upstream":["CVE-2023-7207","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-7207"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6755-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-7207"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"cpio","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/cpio@2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4"}]}],"versions":["2.12+dfsg-9","2.12+dfsg-9ubuntu1","2.13+dfsg-1","2.13+dfsg-2","2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4","binary_name":"cpio"},{"binary_name":"cpio-win32","binary_version":"2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2023-7207","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-6755-1.json"}},{"package":{"name":"cpio","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/cpio@2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=jammy"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1"}]}],"versions":["2.13+dfsg-4ubuntu4","2.13+dfsg-7"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"cpio","binary_version":"2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1"},{"binary_name":"cpio-win32","binary_version":"2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1"}]},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"id":"CVE-2023-7207","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:22.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-6755-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}