CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-1396

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-11-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-11-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• gnu patch (< 2.7.4) • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • debian debian linux 10.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References