Release Date: | 2019-07-26 | |
Impact: | Important | What is this? |
GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.
See more information about CVE-2019-13638 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score: | 7.8 |
Vector String: | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
Version: | 3.0 |
Attack Vector: | Local |
Attack Complexity: | Low |
Privileges Required: | None |
User Interaction: | Required |
Scope: | Unchanged |
Confidentiality Impact: | High |
Integrity Impact: | High |
Availability Impact: | High |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Linux version 7 (patch) | ELSA-2019-2964 | 2019-10-03 |
Oracle Linux version 8 (patch) | ELSA-2019-2798 | 2019-09-19 |
This page is generated automatically and has not been checked for errors or omissions. For clarification or corrections: