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CVE-2019-13638

Date: July 26, 2019

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.

Language: DEBIAN

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (20)

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-13638

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13638

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SVWWGISFWACROJJPVJJL4UBLVZ7LPOLT/

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-22

Url: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0

Url: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29

Url: https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061

Url: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/54

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13638

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190828-0001/

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4489

Url: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-13638

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13638

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-13638

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

OS Command Injections

CWE-78

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2019-13638

Date: July 26, 2019

Language: DEBIAN

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Related Resources (20)

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Weakness Type (CWE)

CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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