GNU cpio is vulnerable to improper encoding or escaping of output in its archive member listing functionality. When listing archive members via cpio -it, member names are printed directly to output w…
Summary
GNU cpio is vulnerable to improper encoding or escaping of output in its archive member listing functionality. When listing archive members via cpio -it, member names are printed directly to output without quoting or escaping. An attacker can craft a cpio archive containing member names with embedded newline characters or ANSI escape sequences, causing forged listing entries or terminal control sequence injection when the listing is displayed. This issue has been fixed in commit 2ff9600c9ef…
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Lint boundary warnings (2)
The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).
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REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-66484 -
REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD