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CVE-2015-2304

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2304 is an absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio within libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier, affecting various distributions of libarchive, Canonical, and openSUSE. This flaw allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files by including full pathnames in an archive. With a CVSS score of 6.4, it presents a medium severity risk, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0489 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libarchive
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libarchive

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-2304Low

libarchive: directory traversal in bsdcpio

Jan 16, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0106.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00065.html
github.com / libarchive/libarchive/commit/59357157706d47c365b2227739e17daba3607526
github.com / libarchive/libarchive/pull/110
groups.google.com / forum
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-03
freebsd.org / security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:22.libarchive.asc
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3180
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/07/5
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/16/7
securitytracker.com / id/1035996
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2549-1