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CVE-2015-8621

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

t-coffee before 11.00.8cbe486-2 allows local users to write to ~/.t_coffee globally.

Affected products

• Tcoffee T-Coffee: through 11.00.8cbe486-1

References

• http://cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-8621
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/4
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751579
• https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8621.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8621/
• http://cve.killedkenny.io/cve/CVE-2015-8621
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/4
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751579
• https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8621.html
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8621/

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