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CVE-2015-1196

high

Description

GNU patch 2.7.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182154

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72074

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/173

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00013.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99967

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=4e9269a5fc1fe80a1095a92593dd85db871e1fd3

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-01-21

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00672