CVE-2015-1396
HIGH7.5EPSS 3.7%Published: 11/25/2019Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1396
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/patchfrom 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 |