Vulnerability Details CVE-2015-1396
A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.037
EPSS Ranking 87.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 6.4
Products affected by CVE-2015-1396
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.5.9
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:2.7.3
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0