CVE-2005-1229

Published May 2, 2005

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.6
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Vendor comments

  • Red HatThis is defined and documented behaviour: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156313

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