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CVE-2015-1416
Larry Wall's patch; patch in FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p2, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p16; Bitrig; GNU…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Larry Wall's patch; patch in FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 before 10.2-RC1-p1, 10.2 before 10.2-BETA2-p2, and 10.1 before 10.1-RELEASE-p16; Bitrig; GNU patch before 2.2.5; and possibly other patch variants allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted patch file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 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 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- [oss-security] 20150801 Re: CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150730 CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150801 Re: CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-15:14 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- 1033110 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 76116 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150802 Re: CVE-2015-1416: vulnerability in patch(1) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-2015-1553 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-1416)Record last updated .