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CVE-2015-1395

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 20, 21
• GNU patch: through 2.7.2

References

• 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
• 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

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