medium5.3
CVE-2023-7216
A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Gnu | Cpio | All versions |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 |