CVE-2023-7216

Cpio: extraction allows symlinks which enables remote command execution

Severity Score

5.3

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Attend

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Se encontró una vulnerabilidad de path traversal en la utilidad CPIO. Este problema podría permitir que un atacante remoto no autenticado engañe a un usuario para que abra un archivo especialmente manipulado. Durante el proceso de extracción, el archivador podría seguir enlaces simbólicos fuera del directorio deseado, que podrían utilizarse para ejecutar comandos arbitrarios en el sistema de destino.

*Credits: Red Hat would like to thank Febin Mon Saji for reporting this issue.

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Attend

Exploitation

Poc

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Total

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2024-01-05 CVE Reserved
2024-02-05 CVE Published
2024-03-13 EPSS Updated
2024-11-04 CVE Updated
2024-11-04 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7216	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2249901	2024-11-04

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Gnu Search vendor "Gnu"		Cpio Search vendor "Gnu" for product "Cpio"				-		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux"				7.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" and version "7.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux"				8.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" and version "8.0"		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux"				9.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" and version "9.0"		-		Affected