CVE-2010-4226: GNU Cpio

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cpio, as used in build 2007.05.10, 2010.07.28, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink within an RPM package archive.

Affected products

• GNU Cpio: any version
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 2007.05.10 only; version 2010.07.28 only

Published 2014-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.