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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2015-5159 json

Improper Input Validation in kdcproxy

published 2018-10-30 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-j7c4-2xj8-wm7r , PYSEC-2018-85 , EUVD-2018-0081

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

python-kdcproxy before 0.3.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large POST request.

Patch / fix

  • pypi kdcproxy 0.3.2
  • kdcproxy_project kdcproxy 0.3.2

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-5159 updated cvss 5.0

python-kdcproxy: Missing request size limit allows denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-kdcproxy
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

2.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi kdcproxy
<0.3.2
0.3.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.