Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-1664

Critical

Published: 26 May 2022

Published
26 May 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0074 73.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-1664 is a critical-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Debian Dpkg. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 26.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Dpkg::Source::Archive in dpkg, the Debian package management system, before version 1.21.8, 1.20.10, 1.19.8, 1.18.26 is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. When extracting untrusted source packages in v2 and v3 source package formats that include a debian.tar, the in-place extraction…

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can lead to directory traversal situations on specially crafted orig.tar and debian.tar tarballs.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

debian
dpkg
1.14.17 — 1.18.26 · 1.19.0 — 1.19.8 · 1.20.0 — 1.20.10
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0, 9.0
netapp
ontap select deploy administration utility
all versions

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References