CVE-2015-1395

HIGH

GNU patch <2.7.3 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a .. (dot dot) in a diff file name.

References (9)

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html

[Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0133

EPSS Percentile 79.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-22

Status draft

Affected Products (6)

fedoraproject/fedora

canonical/ubuntu_linux

gnu/patch < 2.7.2

Timeline

Published Aug 25, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026