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CVE-2015-1395

high · 7.5

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.

7.5
CVSS
11.3%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2017-08-25
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
fedoraprojectfedora20
fedoraprojectfedora21
canonicalubuntu_linux12.04
canonicalubuntu_linux14.04
canonicalubuntu_linux14.10
gnupatch<= 2.7.2

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References

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