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CVE-2015-0851 json

XMLTooling-C before 1.5.5, as used in OpenSAML-C and Shibboleth Service Provider (SP), does not properly handle integer conversion exceptio…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-0862

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

XMLTooling-C before 1.5.5, as used in OpenSAML-C and Shibboleth Service Provider (SP), does not properly handle integer conversion exceptions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via schema-invalid XML data.

Patch / fix

  • xmltooling Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0851

  • xmltooling Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.5.3-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0851

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-0851 updated cvss 5.0

xmltooling: incorrect processing of well-formed but invalid XML

  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 xmltooling xmltooling
    +2 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 xmltooling xmltooling Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 xmltooling xmltooling
    affected: no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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