CVE-2023-7207 (GCVE-0-2023-7207)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-05 00:39
Modified
2025-05-07 20:19
Severity ?
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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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