CVE-2023-7207 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gnu	Cpio

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cpio:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7207
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-7207
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8

History

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Gnu Gnu cpio
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cpio:2.13:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Gnu Gnu cpio

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00082}`	epss `{'score': 0.00085}`

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2024-01-05T00:39:49.690Z

Updated: 2025-05-07T20:19:53.516Z

Reserved: 2024-01-05T00:09:37.741Z

Link: CVE-2023-7207

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:57:35.151Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-02-29T01:42:59.920

Modified: 2025-08-26T17:19:09.897

Link: CVE-2023-7207

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-01-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-7207 - Bugzilla

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