CVE-2023-7207 Affecting cpio package, versions <2.12-150000.3.12.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-CPIO-6420438
  • published9 Mar 2024
  • disclosed8 Mar 2024

Introduced: 8 Mar 2024

CVE-2023-7207  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 cpio to version 2.12-150000.3.12.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cpio package and not the cpio package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1