CVE-2015-1395
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Path traversal
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)11%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490Patch
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbdPatch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846Advisory