CVE-2015-1395 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5