High severity · published Nov 25, 2019
CVE-2015-1396
A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4
7.5
CVSS
3.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.3% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0; 10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
PA
Patch · Gnu
before 2.7.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1396
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1396
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358
www.ubuntu.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764
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