CVE-2005-1229: GNU Cpio

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.

Affected products

• GNU Cpio: up to and including 2.6

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.