CVE-2023-7216: GNU Cpio

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility. This issue could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to trick a user into opening a specially crafted archive. During the extraction process, the archiver could follow symlinks outside of the intended directory, which allows files to be written in arbitrary directories through symlinks.

Affected products

• GNU Cpio: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2024-02-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.