CVE-2023-7216

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions cpio (affected versions not specified)

Description 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. The vulnerability is related to incorrect link resolution before accessing a file, which may enable an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.