CVE-2020-7666: github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/cpio Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip)

April 24, 2024

This affects all versions of package github.com/u-root/u-root/pkg/cpio up to and including 7.0.0. It is vulnerable to leading, non-leading relative path traversal attacks and symlink based (relative and absolute) path traversal attacks in cpio file extraction.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-mq35-x99r-54fc
github.com/u-root/u-root/pull/1817
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7666
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMUROOTUROOTPKGCPIO-570440

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