CVE-2022-1664: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dpkg::Source::Archive in dpkg, the Debian package management system, before version 1.21.8, 1.20.10, 1.19.8, 1.18.26 is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. When extracting untrusted source packages in v2 and v3 source package formats that include a debian.tar, the in-place extraction can lead to directory traversal situations on specially crafted orig.tar and debian.tar tarballs.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Debian Dpkg: from 1.14.17, before 1.18.26 (fixed in 1.18.26); from 1.19.0, before 1.19.8 (fixed in 1.19.8); from 1.20.0, before 1.20.10 (fixed in 1.20.10); from 1.21.0, before 1.21.8 (fixed in 1.21.8)
• Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration Utility: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.