CVE-2015-5070

Severity: low (CVSS 3.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% 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 1.12.4 and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when a case-insensitive filesystem is used, allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to inclusion of .pbl files from WML. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-5069.

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/75425
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236010
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/commit/b2738ffb2fdd2550ececb74f76f75583c43c8b59
https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/releases/tag/1.12.4
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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