CVE-2023-7216

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249901

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7216

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-02-05

Updated: 2024-09-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Severity: Medium