CVE-2023-7207

Publication date 29 February 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cpio	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2.13+dfsg-7.1ubuntu0.1
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2.13+dfsg-7ubuntu0.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.13+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

ccdm94

bionic and earlier are not affected by this issue as the CVE patch for CVE-2015-1197 was not reverted in these releases.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
cpio	Upstream: ?id=376

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6755-1
GNU cpio vulnerabilities
29 April 2024