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CVE-2015-1396

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.

Published

2019-11-25T16:15:12.817

Last Modified

2024-11-21T02:25:20.730

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-22
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application gnu patch < 2.7.4 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 8.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 9.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 10.0 Yes
Operating System debian debian_linux 11.0 Yes
References