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CVE-2023-7207

Publication date 29 February 2024

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
cpio 24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Fixed 2.13+dfsg-7.1ubuntu0.1
23.04 lunar Ignored
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes

ccdm94

bionic and earlier are not affected by this issue as the CVE patch for CVE-2015-1197 was not reverted in these releases.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
cpio

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 4.9 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N