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CVE-2015-5069

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The (1) filesystem::get_wml_location function in filesystem.cpp and (2) is_legal_file function in filesystem_boost.cpp in Battle for Wesnoth before 1.12.3 and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to inclusion of .pbl files from WML.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22
• Wesnoth Battle For Wesnoth: through 1.12.2; 1.13.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161722.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161752.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/25/12
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75424
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236010
• https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/commit/f8914468182e8d0a1551b430c0879ba236fe4d6d
• https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/releases/tag/1.12.3
• https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/releases/tag/1.13.1
• https://gna.org/bugs/?23504
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161722.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161752.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/25/12

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