CVE-2015-5704: Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scripts/licensecheck.pl in devscripts before 2.15.7 allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands.

Affected products

• Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts: up to and including 2.15.6
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 21 only; version 22 only

Published 2017-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.