17939 : cpio Traversal Arbitrary File Creation
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2005-04-20

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-1229" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : 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.

Classification

Attack Type: Input Manipulation

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Tools & Filters

18678 19954 20601 28352

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.6
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-11 | Disagree?

Access_vector_0 Access_complexity_2 Authentication_2 Confidentiality_impact_1 Integrity_impact_1 Availability_impact_1

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