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medium 5.0

CVE-2015-5220 json

The Web Console in Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 6.4.4 and WildFly (formerly JBoss Application Server) allows remote…

published 2015-10-27 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-5217

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Web Console in Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) before 6.4.4 and WildFly (formerly JBoss Application Server) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large request header.

Patch / fix

  • jboss-ec2-eap jboss enterprise application platform 6 7.5.4-1.Final_redhat_4.ep6.el6
  • jboss-ec2-eap-samples jboss enterprise application platform 6 7.5.4-1.Final_redhat_4.ep6.el6
  • jbossweb jboss enterprise application platform 6 7.5.11-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7
  • jboss-hal jboss enterprise application platform 6 2.5.10-2.Final_redhat_2.2.ep6.el7
  • weld-core jboss enterprise application platform 6 1.1.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7
  • apache-cxf jboss enterprise application platform 6 2.7.17-1.redhat_1.1.ep6.el7
  • httpserver jboss enterprise application platform 6 1.0.5-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7
  • infinispan jboss enterprise application platform 6 5.2.15-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1907RHSA-2015:1906RHSA-2015:1905RHSA-2015:1904

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-2015-5220 updated cvss 7.8

OOME from EAP 6 http management console

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 5 Server apache-cxf 2.7.17-1.redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, jboss-aesh 0.33.16-1.redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, jbossweb 7.5.11-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, httpserver 1.0.5-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, jboss-hal 2.5.10-2.Final_redhat_2.2.ep6.el5, weld-core 1.1.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el5, +74 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1904
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 6 Server apache-cxf 2.7.17-1.redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, jboss-aesh 0.33.16-1.redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, jbossweb 7.5.11-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, httpserver 1.0.5-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, jboss-hal 2.5.10-2.Final_redhat_2.2.ep6.el6, weld-core 1.1.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el6, +76 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1905
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for RHEL 7 Server apache-cxf 2.7.17-1.redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, jboss-aesh 0.33.16-1.redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, jbossweb 7.5.11-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, httpserver 1.0.5-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, jboss-hal 2.5.10-2.Final_redhat_2.2.ep6.el7, weld-core 1.1.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep6.el7, +74 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1906
  • Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1519

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

2.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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.