What is CVE-2015-0858?

CVE-2015-0858 is a low-severity vulnerability in Tardiff Project, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2016-05-06.

How severe is CVE-2015-0858?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Tardiff Project

CVE-2015-0858

Cool Projects TarDiff allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pathname in a /tmp/tardiff-$$ temporary directory.

Published 2016-05-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (28.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 28.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Tardiff Project
Debian Linux — versions 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3562 (vendor-advisory)
anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/tardiff.git/commit/

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-0858?: CVE-2015-0858 is a low-severity vulnerability in Tardiff Project, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2016-05-06.
How severe is CVE-2015-0858?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.