6.8

CVE-2015-5292: fedoraproject sssd Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 6.8v2.0MediumModified
AliasesRHSA-2015:2019RHSA-2015:2355UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5292
Published 29-10-2015Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-5292 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in fedoraproject sssd. EPSS estimates a 3.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.67%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 29-10-2015
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plugin (sssd_pac_plugin.so) in System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.10 before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of logins that trigger parsing of PAC blobs during Kerberos authentication.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.67%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

90%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.67% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
3.67%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Redhat30 products
  • libipa_hbac< 0:1.12.4-47.el6_7.4 | < 0:1.13.0-40.el7
  • libipa_hbac-devel< 0:1.12.4-47.el6_7.4 | < 0:1.13.0-40.el7
  • libipa_hbac-python< 0:1.12.4-47.el6_7.4
  • libsss_idmap< 0:1.12.4-47.el6_7.4 | < 0:1.13.0-40.el7
  • libsss_idmap-devel< 0:1.12.4-47.el6_7.4 | < 0:1.13.0-40.el7
Debian1 product
  • sssd< 1.13.1-1
Fedoraproject1 product
  • sssd1.10.0 | 1.10.1 | 1.11.0 | 1.11.1 | 1.11.2 | 1.11.3 | 1.11.4 | 1.11.5 | 1.11.6 | 1.11.7 | 1.12.0 | 1.12.1 | 1.12.2 | 1.12.3 | 1.12.4 | 1.12.5 | 1.13.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • sssd< 1.13.1-2

4 vendors · 33 products

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