CVE-2015-4156 — Vulnetix

CVE-2015-4156 PUBLISHED

GNU Parallel before 20150522 (Nepal), when using (1) --cat or (2) --fifo with --sshlogin, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

EPSS 0.05% · 16.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.05%

16.5th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	parallel	0, *

Exploit Intelligence

openSUSE-SU-2015:0968 (circl)
74961 (circl)
[parallel] 20150423 GNU Parallel Security Advisory: GNU Parallel can be tricked into overwriting a file (circl)
[parallel] 20150522 GNU Parallel 20150522 ('Nepal') released [stable] (circl)

Timeline

Jun 2, 2015 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
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Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
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Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
May 25, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4156 third-party-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00090.html third-party-advisory
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-05/msg00024.html third-party-advisory
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2015-04/msg00045.html third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4156 third-party-advisory

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