CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2015-1395
HIGHEPSS 95th pctl7.5
CVSS v3
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.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
Impact
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityNone
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
11.20%probability of exploitation in 30 days
95thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059
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