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CVE-2015-1395 Detail

Current Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a .. (dot dot) in a diff file name.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/25/2017
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Impact

CVSS v3.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N (V3 legend)
Impact Score: 3.6
Exploitability Score: 3.9

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.8 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.html Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.html Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd Issue Tracking Patch
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059 Patch Vendor Advisory

Technical Details

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-1395
NVD Published Date:
08/25/2017
NVD Last Modified:
08/29/2017