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CVE-2015-1197
cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in…
Low1.9EPSS 2.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- 71914 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150118 Re: CVE Request: cpio -- directory traversal (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- USN-2906-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0080.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150108 Directory traversals in cpio and friends? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774669 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [Bug-cpio] 20150108 cpio: directory traversal vulnerability via symlinks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169458/Zimbra-Collaboration-Suite-TAR-Path-Traversal.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [oss-security] 20231221 Security vulnerability in Debian's cpio 2.13 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20231227 xarchiver: Path traversal with crafted cpio archives (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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