Vulnerability Database

289,697

Total vulnerabilities in the database

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.

  • Published: Nov 25, 2019
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2015-1396
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.4
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

Software From Fixed in
gnu / patch - 2.7.4
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x
debian / debian_linux 9.0 9.0.x
debian / debian_linux 10.0 10.0.x
debian / debian_linux 11.0 11.0.x