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CVE-2023-7207

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-7207 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting Debian's cpio utility, specifically within gnu cpio. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 4.9) allows a highly privileged attacker to read sensitive files due to a regression in the --no-absolute-filenames option. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cpio:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0091 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 3,562 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

denopatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
keraspatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: cpio
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: cpio

Vendor Advisories (4)

denollm-deno-b67a3af2ce0be075CRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.0 SP 9 Security Updates

Jun 17, 2024
kerasllm-keras-7d8c31fee70361dcCRITICAL

HP ThinPro 8.0 SP 9 Security Updates

Jun 17, 2024
microsoft2024-Jan/CVE-2023-7207

Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability. This issue was introduced by reverting CVE-2015-1197 patches which had caused a regression in --no-absolute-filenames. Upstream has since provided a proper fix to --no-absolute-filenames.

Jan 9, 2024
redhatCVE-2023-7207Moderate

cpio: path traversal vulnerability

Jan 4, 2024

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Issue Tracking
cve.mitre.org / cgi-bin/cvename.cgi
Third Party Advisory
git.savannah.gnu.org / cgit/cpio.git/commit
Mailing ListPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/8
Mailing List
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2024/01/05/1
Mailing List