CVE-2015-1395
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a ..
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in GNU patch versions which support Git-style patching before 2.7.3 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files with the permissions of the target user via a .. (dot dot) in a diff file name.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 11.29% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- fedoraproject/fedora · canonical/ubuntu linux · gnu/patch
- Source
- security@debian.org
EPSS moved from 9.3% on 21 September 2026 to 11.3% on 4 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbdIssue Tracking, Patch
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154214.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148953.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/28Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72846Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2651-1Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775873Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184490Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=17953b5893f7c9835f0dd2a704ba04e0371d2cbdIssue Tracking, Patch
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44059Patch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.