CVE-2023-52138 – Path traversal via crafted cpio archives in Engrampa archivers

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2023-52138

05 Feb 2024 — Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. Engrampa is found to be vulnerable to a Path Traversal vulnerability that can be leveraged to achieve full Remote Command Execution (RCE) on the target. While handling CPIO archives, the Engrampa Archive manager follows symlink, cpio by default will follow stored symlinks while extracting and the Archiver will not check the symlink location, which leads to arbitrary file writes to unintended locations. When the victim extracts the archive, the attacke... • https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa/commit/63d5dfa9005c6b16d0f0ccd888cc859fca78f970 • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE-25: Path Traversal: '/../filedir' CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') •