CVE-2015-1395

Fedora vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

11.2%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Fedoraproject

Affected product

Fedora

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2017-08-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 11.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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