CVE-2015-1396
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.7%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-1396
To remediate CVE-2015-1396, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/patch—upgrade to 2.7.3-1 or later
Is CVE-2015-1396 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.7.3-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |