Directory Traversal Affecting patch package, versions <2.7.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-PATCH-303881
  • published25 Aug 2017
  • disclosed25 Aug 2017

Introduced: 25 Aug 2017

CVE-2015-1395  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 patch to version 2.7.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream patch package and not the patch package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1