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engrampa — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52138

Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. Engrampa is found to be vulnerable to a Path Traversal vulnerability that can be leveraged to achieve full Remote Command Execution (RCE) on the target. While handling CPIO archives, the Engrampa Archive manager follows symlink, cpio by default will follow stored symlinks while extracting and the Archiver will not check the symlink location, which leads to arbitrary file writes to unintended locations. When the victim extracts the archive, the attacker can craft a malicious cpio or ISO archive to achieve RCE on the target system. This vulnerability was fixed in commit 63d5dfa.

Products
engrampa
Affected versions
1.26.0-1, 1.26.0-1+deb12u1
Fixed versions
1.26.0-1+deb12u2, 1.26.2-1
CVEs
CVE-2023-52138
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:01 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52138

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Feb 2024, 15:15 UTC

Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. Engrampa is found to be vulnerable to a Path Traversal vulnerability that can be leveraged to achieve full Remote Command Execution (RCE) on the target. While handling CPIO archives, the Engrampa Archive manager follows symlink, cpio by default will follow stored symlinks while extracting and the Archiver will not check the symlink location, which leads to arbitrary file writes to unintended locations. When the victim extracts the archive, the attacker can craft a malicious cpio or ISO archive to achieve RCE on the target system. This vulnerability was fixed in commit 63d5dfa.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52138

engrampa

Fixed versions: 1.26.0-1+deb12u2

engrampa

Fixed versions: 1.26.2-1

engrampa

Fixed versions: 1.26.2-1

Complete source record
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