Directory Traversal Affecting cpio package, versions [,2.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CPIO-2319550
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-1229  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade cpio to version 2.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1