CVE-2019-13638
N/A
Published: July 26, 2019 at 12:22 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:17 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxPatch
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (15)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-78
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