CVE-2005-1229
Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in a cpio file.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.06% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-04-22 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:44Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-04-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b4f7846e09dd925d23ce2748daf7009680a26f51e784a777f33f86f97f4b2a64
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2007:233http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:233
- ftp.sco.comSCOSA-2006.2ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.2/SCOSA-2006.2.txt
- secunia.com27857http://secunia.com/advisories/27857
- ftp.freebsd.orgFreeBSD-SA-06:03ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:03.cpio.asc
- secunia.com17123http://secunia.com/advisories/17123
- www.osvdb.org17939http://www.osvdb.org/17939
- secunia.com16998http://secunia.com/advisories/16998
- www.debian.orgDSA-846http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-846
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-189-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-189-1
- www.securityfocus.com13291http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13291
- marc.info20050420 cpio directory traversal vulnerabilityhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111403177526312&w=2
- lists.suse.comSUSE-SR:2006:010http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-May/0004.html
- secunia.com20117http://secunia.com/advisories/20117
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comcpio-directory-traversal(20204)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20204
- ftp.sco.comSCOSA-2005.32ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2005.32/SCOSA-2005.32.txt
- secunia.com18395http://secunia.com/advisories/18395
- secunia.com18290http://secunia.com/advisories/18290
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- cpio Fixed in 2.6-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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