VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-7666

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-09-01
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

This affects all versions of package github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/cpio. It is vulnerable to leading, non-leading relative path traversal attacks and symlink based (relative and absolute) path traversal attacks in cpio file extraction.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Primary references