CVE-2023-52138
HIGHEPSS 74th pctlDescription
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.
How to fix
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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 74% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
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| CVE | Severity | CVSS | EPSS | Exploited | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-20775 | High | 7.8 | 12% | KEV | Fix |
| CVE-2025-68916 | Critical | 9.1 | 2.3% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-52076 | High | 8.5 | 1.0% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-6118 | High | 7.5 | 0.8% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2023-6947 | High | 7.7 | 0.7% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2024-2442 | High | 7.5 | 0.7% | - | - |
Common questions
How do I fix CVE-2023-52138?
Upgrade engrampa on debian 11 to 1.24.1-1+deb11u1 or later.
Is CVE-2023-52138 being actively exploited?
Not that we know of. CVE-2023-52138 is not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Its EPSS score of 1.7% is the estimated probability that it will be exploited in the next 30 days. That is higher than 74% of all scored CVEs.
How severe is CVE-2023-52138?
CVE-2023-52138 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.2, rated high. CVSS rates the technical impact if the vulnerability is exploited, not how likely that is, so weigh it alongside the exploit-prediction score when you decide what to patch first.
What does CVE-2023-52138 affect?
Published advisories record a fix for engrampa (Debian). Only products with a sourced advisory are listed, so treat this as what we can cite rather than a complete inventory.
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