vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-13638

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 26, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 14, 2025

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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