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high 7.5

CVE-2015-1395 in the critical feed json

Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to a…

published 2017-08-25 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-1532

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.3%
EPSS 11.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • patch Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.7.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1395

  • patch Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.7.1-4ubuntu2.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1395

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • patch SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 2.7.5-7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1395 updated cvss 3.6

patch: directory traversal via file rename

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 patch
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 patch Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 patch
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

11.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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