Command Injection Affecting patch package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.68% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PATCH-2368548
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Aug 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Aug 2019

CVE-2018-20969  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for patch.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection do_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1