CVE-2015-5186: Linux Audit Project Linux Audit

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames.

Affected products

• Linux Audit Project Linux Audit: up to and including 2.4.3

Published 2017-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.