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Vulnerability details: VCID-1pm2-zhtr-yqda
Vulnerability ID VCID-1pm2-zhtr-yqda
Aliases CVE-2015-1396
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
System Score Found at
epss 0.03663 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1396
epss 0.03663 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1396
epss 0.03663 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1396
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2015-1396.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-1396
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1396
1186764 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186764
775901 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775901
USN-2651-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2651-1/
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.88096
EPSS Score 0.03663
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T17:06:36.645397+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0