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CVE-2023-52138

Path traversal via crafted cpio archives in Engrampa archivers

Severity Score

9.6
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

1
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

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 attacker can craft a malicious cpio or ISO archive to achieve RCE on the target system. This vulnerability was fixed in commit 63d5dfa.

Engrampa es un administrador de archivos para el entorno MATE. Se descubre que Engrampa es vulnerable a una vulnerabilidad de Path Traversa que se puede aprovechar para lograr una ejecución remota de comandos (RCE) completa en el objetivo. Mientras maneja archivos CPIO, el administrador de archivos de Engrampa sigue el enlace simbólico, cpio de forma predeterminada seguirá los enlaces simbólicos almacenados durante la extracción y el Archiver no verificará la ubicación del enlace simbólico, lo que conduce a escrituras arbitrarias de archivos en ubicaciones no deseadas. Cuando la víctima extrae el archivo, el atacante puede crear un archivo cpio o ISO malicioso para lograr RCE en el sistema de destino. Esta vulnerabilidad se solucionó en el commit 63d5dfa.

It was discovered that Engrampa, an archive manager for the MATE desktop environment was susceptible to path traversal when handling CPIO archives.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2023-12-28 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-02-05 CVE Published
  • 2025-02-13 CVE Updated
  • 2025-02-13 First Exploit
  • 2025-04-15 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
  • 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')
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Mate-desktop
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 Engrampa
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 < 1.26.2
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Affected