Vulnerability in Pax Project

CVE-2015-1194

pax 1:20140703 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack in an archive.

Published 2015-01-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 76.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Pax Project — versions 1\, 1:20140703

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/18/3 (mailing-list)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Exploit)