CVE-2015-1396

7.5 highEPSS 3.3%

High (7.5). EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2019-11-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:debian_linux
gnu:patch

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/29
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75358

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