CVE-2010-4226
high
CVSS v3
7.2
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
7.2
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
81%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 2010.07.28 | Affected | — |
| 2007.05.10 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| gnu | cpio | | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00008.html
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4226.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665768
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00008.html
- http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4226.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665768
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.