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CVE-2015-5705

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted symlink and crafted filename.

Affected products

• Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts: through 2.15.6
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 21, 22

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163705.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163710.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/7
• https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=d8f8fa1d8e4151fa62997cb74403f97ab0d7e1a2
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794260
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249645
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163705.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163710.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/7
• https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=d8f8fa1d8e4151fa62997cb74403f97ab0d7e1a2
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794260
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249645

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