CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-13638
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-07-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu patch 2.7.6
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061 access.redhat.com
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities github.com
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29 seclists.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13638 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489 Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061 access.redhat.com
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities github.com
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29 seclists.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13638 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22 security.gentoo.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489 Third Party Advisory