CVE-2015-1396
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 25, 2019 at 03:44 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:22 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxPatch
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (4)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDx_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_refsource_MISC
Source: [email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-22
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