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CVE-2015-1038

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

p7zip 9.20.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

Affected products

• 7-Zip P7Zip: 9.20.1
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 10.0, 11.2

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173245.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174245.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00000.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3289
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/11/2
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71890
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774660
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179505
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99970
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173245.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174245.html

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