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CVE-2023-7216 (GCVE-0-2023-7216)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-05 15:12
Modified
2025-11-21 06:23
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CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
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.
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