Vulnerability CVE-2023-7216


Published: 2024-02-05

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 could be utilized to run arbitrary commands on the target system.

Type:

CWE-59

(Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7216
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249901

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