CVE-2023-7207

Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability. This issue was introduced by reverting CVE-2015-1197 patches which had caused a regression in --no-absolute-filenames. Upstream has since provided a proper fix to --no-absolute-filenames.

Published: 2024-02-29 Last update: 2025-08-26 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2023-7207 is rated Low Risk (25.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-7207

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 0.48% 0.06% -0.42%
2 2025-11-18 0.06% 0.48% +0.43%
3 2025-04-15 — 0.06% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-7207

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.9 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
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:H)
They need powerful rights—admin, root, or similar—before this pays off.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
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:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.2 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-7207

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-7207

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2023-7207: 1 source package rows (cpio); 6 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 6. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-7207
debian not yet assigned CVE-2023-7207 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cpio), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-7207
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7207
suse medium CVE-2023-7207 severity moderate: SUSE including 293 source package names (1.1.1.23.352:cpio-2.13-150400.3.6.1, 1.1.1.24.478:cpio-2.13-150400.3.6.1, …), 633 product×package rows across 353 product lines (Container bci/bci-init, Container bci/bci-sle15-kernel-module-devel, … (353 product lines)): Fixed 438, Known Affected 195. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7207/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-7207 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cpio), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, lunar, mantic, noble, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 4, released 4, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-7207

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-7207

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gnu cpio 2.13 cpe:2.3:a:gnu:cpio:2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2023-7207

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