CVE-2018-20969
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20969
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-20969.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-20969
- Downstream
ALPINE (1)
BELL (1)
JLSEC (1)
MGASA (1)
UBUNTU (1)
- Published
- 2019-08-16T04:15:09Z
- Modified
- 2026-09-10T08:13:31Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
do_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.
- References
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- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29
- https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities
Affected packages
Git / cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git
Git / https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/patch.git/
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://https.git.savannah.gnu.org/git/patch.git/
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast Affected40b387de08653a1e46872b8ac1a6a14b9b94feb3
- Database specific
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Show details
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:patch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "0" }, { "last_affected": "2.7.6" } ], "source": "CPE_RANGE" }