7.2

CVE-2015-5154: fedoraproject fedora

Modified
AliasesSUSE-SU-2015:1409-1SUSE-SU-2015:1455-1SUSE-SU-2015:1472-1
Published 12-08-2015Last modified 06-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-5154 is a high (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7.2, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.2/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.63%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 17 · Related 11
DSA-3348-1MGASA-2015-0310MGASA-2016-0098OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10196-1RHSA-2015:1507RHSA-2015:1508

Timeline

  1. 12-08-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the IDE subsystem in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier, when the container has a CDROM drive enabled, allows local guest users to execute arbitrary code on the host via unspecified ATAPI commands.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.63%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

50%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.63% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Suse14 products
  • kvm&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3< 1.4.2-0.22.34.3
  • kvm&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4< 1.4.2-32.1
  • kvm&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS< 0.12.5-1.30.2
  • kvm&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-TERADATA< 0.12.5-1.30.2
  • kvm&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3< 1.4.2-0.22.34.3
Debian2 products
  • qemu< 1:2.4+dfsg-1a
  • xen< 4.4.0-1
Ubuntu2 products
  • qemu< 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.15
  • xen< 4.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
Fedoraproject1 product
Qemu1 product
Xen1 product
  • xen≤ 4.5.0 | 4.5.1

6 vendors · 21 products

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