CVE-2015-1191

Exp

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pigz 2.3.1 allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a (1) full pathname or (2) .. (dot dot) in an archive.

Published: 2015-01-21 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-1191 is rated Exploit Available (57.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.49%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-1191

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-1191

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-04-19 0.66% 0.49% -0.17%
2 2025-12-06 0.90% 0.66% -0.24%
3 2025-04-12 — 0.90% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-1191

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-1191

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-1191

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-1191 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pigz), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1191
suse medium CVE-2015-1191 severity moderate: SUSE including 3 source package names (12.16:pigz-2.3-5.1, pigz-2.1.6-0.12.1, pigz-2.3-5.1), 37 product×package rows across 37 product lines (Container suse/sles12sp3, Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS, … (37 product lines)): Fixed 37. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1191/
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-1191 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (pigz), 20 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 14, ignored 5, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1191

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-1191

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
zlib pigz 2.3.1 cpe:2.3:a:zlib:pigz:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-1191

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