Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability. This issue was introduced by reverting CVE-2015-1197 patches which had caused a…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.91% · top 40% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.

Weakness

• CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Debian · Debian cpio

  • affected < 2.14+dfsg-1

References (5)

• https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/commit/?id=376d663340a9dc91c91a5849e5713f07571c1628 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059163 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-7207 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• 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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-7207](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-7207.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-7207)

Record last updated 7 May 2025, 20:19 UTC.