CVE-2023-39810

An issue in the CPIO command of Busybox v1.33.2 allows attackers to execute a directory traversal.

Published: 2023-08-28 Last update: 2025-04-24 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2023-39810 is rated Moderate Risk (40.2/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.09%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-39810

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-21 0.36% 0.09% -0.27%
2 2025-11-18 0.12% 0.36% +0.24%
3 2025-04-15 — 0.12% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-39810

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.8 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
 1.8 5.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-39810

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-39810

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-39810 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (busybox), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-39810
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-39810
suse medium CVE-2023-39810 severity moderate: SUSE including 4 source package names (busybox, busybox-static, busybox-testsuite, busybox-warewulf3), 84 product×package rows across 58 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (58 product lines)): Will Not Fix 84. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-39810/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-39810 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (busybox), 11 status rows across 11 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 10, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-39810

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-39810

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
busybox busybox 1.30.1 cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:1.30.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
busybox busybox 1.33.2 cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:1.33.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-39810

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