Vulnerability record · CVE-2023-7207 · published 29 February 2024

CVE-2023-7207: Gnu cpio path traversal vulnerability

Gnu · Cpio

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.

4.9 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.91% · top 41.5% CWE-22 · Path traversal

4.9CVSS 3.1 base score

0.91%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

10References

17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Cpio Gnu

References

Link	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1	Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163	Issue Tracking
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207	Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628	Mailing ListPatch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8	Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1	Mailing List
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163	Issue Tracking
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207	Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628	Mailing ListPatch
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8	Mailing List

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2023-7207), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.