VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-2304

medium
Published 2015-03-15 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in bsdcpio in libarchive 3.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a full pathname in an archive.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.2 Affected —
13.1 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.1.2-11
sid Fixed 3.1.2-11
forky Fixed 3.1.2-11
bullseye Fixed 3.1.2-11
bookworm Fixed 3.1.2-11

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libarchivelibarchive{"endIncluding":"3.1.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.