CVE-2015-1395

7.5 HIGH

Published: August 25, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html

Source: security@debian.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html

Source: security@debian.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28

Source: security@debian.org

Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846

Source: security@debian.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1

Source: security@debian.org

Patch Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873

Source: security@debian.org

Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490

Source: security@debian.org

Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd

Source: security@debian.org

Issue Tracking Patch

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059

Source: security@debian.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html