Name: CVE-2015-1396: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2019-11-25T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2015-1396, CWE-22, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.03663

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade patch	Aug 30, 2017	Feb 2, 2015
Debian	—	Upgrade patch	Jul 30, 2024	Nov 25, 2019
Oracle Solaris	—	Upgrade text/gnu-patch to version 2.7.5-0.175.2.13.0.4.0 on Solaris 11.2	Dec 18, 2019	Nov 25, 2019
Suse	—	Upgrade patch	Dec 18, 2015	Jun 9, 2015
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade patch	Nov 8, 2024	Nov 25, 2019

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CVSS Details

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