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Fencer Intel
medium 4.3

CVE-2015-5250 json

Denial of Service in OpenShift Origin

published 2015-09-08 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rf3m-mhv7-x39f , GO-2022-0875 , EUVD-2021-2580

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The API server in OpenShift Origin 1.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (master process crash) via crafted JSON data.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/openshift/origin 1.0.6
  • openshift openshift 3.0 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose
  • openshift-node openshift 3.0 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose
  • openshift-master openshift 3.0 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose
  • openshift-clients openshift 3.0 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose
  • openshift-sdn-ovs openshift 3.0 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose
  • tuned-profiles-openshift-node openshift 3.0 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1736

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-2015-5250 updated cvss 4.0

OpenShift: Malformed JSON can cause API process crash

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 openshift 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose, openshift-node 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose, openshift-master 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose, openshift-clients 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose, openshift-sdn-ovs 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose, tuned-profiles-openshift-node 3.0.1.0-1.git.529.dcab62c.el7ose
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1736

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Exploit prediction

1.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/openshift/origin
<1.0.6
1.0.6

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.