CVE-2015-1396

patch: directory traversal via symlinks (incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 24, 2015

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote attacker can write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in a patch file. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-1196.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')