CVE-2023-7216
A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.90%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- EPSS
- 0.90% probability · 59th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59, CWE-22
- Affected
- gnu/cpio · redhat/enterprise linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 0.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7216Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249901Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7216Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249901Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.