CVE-2026-66486

Medium

Description

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

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.6
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Cpio
PublishedAug 10, 2026
First seenAug 10, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-116CWE-116

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
GNU cpiov ≤ 2.15—

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