vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2023-7216: CPIO: extraction allows symlinks which enables Remote Command Execution

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 5, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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