CVE-2022-1664

Publication date 25 May 2022

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Dpkg::Source::Archive in dpkg, the Debian package management system, before version 1.21.8, 1.20.10, 1.19.8, 1.18.26 is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. When extracting untrusted source packages in v2 and v3 source package formats that include a debian.tar, the in-place extraction can lead to directory traversal situations on specially crafted orig.tar and debian.tar tarballs.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dpkg 25.10 questing
Fixed 1.21.9ubuntu1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 1.21.9ubuntu1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 1.21.9ubuntu1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.21.9ubuntu1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1.21.9ubuntu1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1.21.9ubuntu1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1.21.9ubuntu1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.21.1ubuntu2.1
21.10 impish
Fixed 1.20.9ubuntu2.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.19.7ubuntu3.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.18.4ubuntu1.7+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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