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critical 9.8

CVE-2015-5244 json

The NSSCipherSuite option with ciphersuites enabled in mod_nss before 1.0.12 allows remote attackers to bypass application restrictions.

published 2017-08-07 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-5236

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The NSSCipherSuite option with ciphersuites enabled in mod_nss before 1.0.12 allows remote attackers to bypass application restrictions.

Patch / fix

  • apache2-mod_nss SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1 1.0.14-18.3
  • apache2-mod_nss SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12-LTSS 1.0.14-10.14.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2396-1SUSE-SU-2016:2285-1

  • apache2-mod_nss openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.0.14-4.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10311-1

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-2015-5244 updated cvss 4.3

mod_nss: incorrect ciphersuite parsing

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mod_nss, openldap Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mod_nss, openldap, compat-openldap, nss_compat_ossl, openldap-clients, openldap-servers, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 mod_nss, openldap, nss_compat_ossl, openldap-clients, openldap-servers, openldap-servers-sql
    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

2.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

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.