CVE-2018-20969

Summary

CVECVE-2018-20969
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-08-16 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-09-05 16:15:00 UTC
Descriptiondo_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Patch All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Bugtraq: Details about recent GNU patch vulnerabilities BUGTRAQ seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
GitHub - irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities: The GNU patch utility was prone vulnerable to multiple attacks through version 2.7.6. You can find my related PoC files here. MISC github.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
patch.git - GNU patch MISC git.savannah.gnu.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
GNU patch Command Injection / Directory Traversal ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377009 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for patch (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0114)
  • 378297 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for patch (VZLSA-2019:2964)
  • 500513 Alpine Linux Security Update for patch
  • 504272 Alpine Linux Security Update for patch
  • 671067 EulerOS Security Update for patch (EulerOS-SA-2019-2645)
  • 900088 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for patch 2.7.6
  • 901193 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for patch (6786-1)
  • 902978 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for patch (1917)
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