CVE-2015-5705
Argument injection vulnerability in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted symlink and crafted filename.
02 Description
Argument injection vulnerability in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a crafted symlink and crafted filename.
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
- 3.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (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:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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 06:59Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-08-01
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7df4bb85b8a78e1974afac4e8c5d72a4bd3f3ab1f48eb2765b507710e69d7e75
05 Affected products
06 References
- anonscm.debian.orghttps://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=d8f8fa1d8e4151fa62997cb74403f97ab0d7e1a2
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249645
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-12716http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163710.html
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794260
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2015-12699http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163705.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20150801 Re: CVE Request: devscripts: licensecheck: arbitrary shell command injectionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/7
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- devscripts Fixed in 2.15.8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- devscripts Fixed in 2.15.8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- devscripts Fixed in 2.15.8
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. 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.