Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting cpio package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CPIO-2319548
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed19 Feb 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Feb 2015

CVE-2015-1197  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for cpio.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1