CVE-2019-13636

moderate-risk
Published 2019-07-17

In GNU patch through 2.7.6, the following of symlinks is mishandled in certain cases other than input files. This affects inp.c and util.c.

Do I need to act?

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4.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.9/10 Medium
NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Gnu

References (24)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Director...
Mailing List https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=dce4683cbbe107a95f1f0d45f...
https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00016.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4071-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4071-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Director...
Mailing List https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=dce4683cbbe107a95f1f0d45f...
https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00016.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22
and 4 more references
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 8/34 · Low
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal