Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability. This issue was introduced by reverting CVE-2015-1197 patches which had caused a regression in --no-absolute-filenames. Upstream has since provided a proper fix to --no-absolute-filenames.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207