6.4
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-2304

Published: 15/03/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 570
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive.

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Vendor Advisories

libarchive could be made to crash or overwrite files ...
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that bsdcpio, an implementation of the cpio program part of the libarchive project, is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via absolute paths For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 304-3+wheezy1 For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has be ...
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 312 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive ...