CVE-2010-4651
gnu gnu patch: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Directory traversal vulnerability in util.c in GNU patch 2.6.1 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a filename that is specified with a .. (dot dot) or full pathname, a related issue to CVE-2010-1679.
- EPSS
- 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:gnu_patch
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=685a78b6052f4df6eac6d625a545cfb54a6ac0e1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jun/msg00000.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055241.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055246.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2010-12/msg00000.html