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high 7.5

CVE-2015-5179 json

FreeIPA might display user data improperly via vectors involving non-printable characters.

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-5180

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeIPA might display user data improperly via vectors involving non-printable characters.

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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-2015-5179 updated cvss 4.0

FreeIPA: non-printable characters aren't checked in every case of user data

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ipa, ipa-client, ipa-python, ipa-server, ipa-admintools, ipa-server-selinux, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ipa, ipa-client, ipa-common, ipa-python, ipa-server, ipa-admintools, +8 more
    under investigation

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

1.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • pagure.io https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/5153 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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