CVE-2023-7216 — Cpio: extraction allows symlinks which enables remote command execution
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. …
Published: 2024-02-05 · CVSS: 5.3 · CVSS 3.1
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: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7