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CVE-2015-5704
scripts/licensecheck.pl in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands.
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.53%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 55% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
scripts/licensecheck.pl in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 2 years later
· 2 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% 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 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- FEDORA-2015-12716 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794260 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-12699 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 76143 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249635 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150801 Re: CVE Request: devscripts: licensecheck: arbitrary shell command injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=c0687bcde23108dd42e146573c368b6905e6b8e8 (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-2015-5651 (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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