CVE-2015-1038
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.8
Description
p7zip 9.20.1 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedora | 22 | affected | |
| fedora | 23 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7-zip | p7zip | 9.20.1 | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173245.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174245.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00000.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3289
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/11/2
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71890
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774660
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179505
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99970
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1038
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.