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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-7207 Detail

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CISA-ADP  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-7207
NVD Published Date:
02/28/2024
NVD Last Modified:
08/26/2025
Source:
Canonical Ltd.