CVE-2023-7216

Published Feb 5, 2024

Last updated 2 months ago

Overview

Description
A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility. This issue could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted archive. During the extraction process, the archiver could follow symlinks outside of the intended directory, which allows files to be written in arbitrary directories through symlinks.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.3
Impact score
3.4
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

secalert@redhat.com
CWE-22
nvd@nist.gov
CWE-22

Social media

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