HIGH 7.8 Microsoft

CVE-2019-13638

GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.

Microsoft Security Update 2019-Jul: GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerable to OS shell command injection that can be exploited by opening a crafted patch file that contains an ed style diff payload with shell metacharacters. The ed editor does not need to be present on the vulnerable system. This is different from CVE-2018-1000156.

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Published: 2019-07-09 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-10-23
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2019-07-09 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 patch 2.7.6-7 on CBL Mariner 1.0, cbl2 patch 2.7.6-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0, azl3 patch 2.7.6-9 on Azure Linux 3.0.
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