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CVE-2015-1395
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 11.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.3% · top 4.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 72846 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-1134 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150127 Re: CVE Request: patch: directory traversal via file rename (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-1165 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-2651-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-1532 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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