Cpio vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product16 versions
The short answer

Cpio is made by Gnu. We track 12 published vulnerabilities in it, across 16 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Cpio, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

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None of Cpio's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Cpio flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 7.1%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the process_copy_in function in GNU Cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large block value in a cpio archive.

    CVSS5.0Published2 Dec 2014
  2. 5.5%

    The cpio_safer_name_suffix function in util.c in cpio 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted cpio file.

    CVSS6.5Published22 Feb 2016
  3. 4.7%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt_read__ function in lib/rtapelib.c in the rmt client functionality in GNU tar before 1.23 and GNU cpio before 2.11 allows remote rmt servers to cause a denial of service (memory...

    CVSS6.8Published15 Mar 2010
  4. 4.2%

    GNU cpio through 2.13 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pattern file, because of a dstring.c ds_fgetstr integer overflow that triggers an out-of-bounds heap write.

    CVSS7.8Published8 Aug 2021
  5. 2.9%

    cpio, as used in build 2007.05.10, 2010.07.28, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink within an RPM package archive.

    CVSS7.2Published6 Feb 2014
  6. 2.9%

    cpio 2.11, when using the --no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an archive.

    CVSS1.9Published19 Feb 2015
  7. 2.1%

    Directory traversal vulnerability in cpio 2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary directories via a ..

    CVSS4.6Published2 May 2005
  8. 0.9%

    Debian's cpio contains a path traversal vulnerability.

    CVSS4.9Published29 Feb 2024
  9. 0.9%

    A path traversal vulnerability was found in the CPIO utility.

    CVSS5.3Published5 Feb 2024
  10. 0.7%

    In all versions of cpio before 2.13 does not properly validate input files when generating TAR archives.

    CVSS7.3Published7 Jan 2020
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We track 12 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Cpio, across 16 versions.

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