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CVE-2015-8748 json

Radicale regex metacharacters injection in the user name

published 2016-02-03 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6w8c-6jrg-qwj2 , PYSEC-2016-37 , EUVD-2016-0030

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Radicale before 1.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass owner_write and owner_only limitations via regex metacharacters in the user name, as demonstrated by ".*".

Patch / fix

  • pypi radicale 1.1
  • radicale Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.1.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8748

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-2015-8748 updated cvss 6.4

radicale: Multiple security issues fixed in 1.1

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

2.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi radicale
<1.1
1.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

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