CVE-2015-5186 (GCVE-0-2015-5186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-06 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
VLAI
Summary
Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-08-07 00:00
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