CVE-2026-66486

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 2ff9600c9ef32e88759843cdbde74c8db5ae9b30

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-66484
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-10 11:17

Updated : 2026-08-28 15:26

NVD link : CVE-2026-66486

Mitre link : CVE-2026-66486

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-66486

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-116

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

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