CVE-2015-5186
Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames.
02 Description
Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.75% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-09-06 21:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 06:41Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-07-01
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8ea87a09853d211137c11d9ac8f6a23e5524bc5949d7ac657501c31b0eec332d
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com76840http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76840
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150813 Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling CVE-2015-5186http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/13/9
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1251621
- people.redhat.comhttps://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ChangeLog
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- audit Fixed in 1:2.4.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- audit Fixed in 1:2.4.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- audit Fixed in 1:2.4.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- audit No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.