CVE-2015-5069

medium

Published 2017-09-26 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

4.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

The (1) filesystem::get_wml_location function in filesystem.cpp and (2) is_legal_file function in filesystem_boost.cpp in Battle for Wesnoth before 1.12.3 and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via vectors related to inclusion of .pbl files from WML.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

53%

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.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
fedora	21	affected
fedora	22	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
wesnoth	battle_for_wesnoth	`{"endIncluding":"1.12.2"}`
wesnoth	battle_for_wesnoth	`1.13.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.