CVE-2015-1331

Exp

lxclock.c in LXC 1.1.2 and earlier allows local users to create arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /run/lock/lxc/*.

Published: 2015-08-12 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-1331 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-1331

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-1331

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-06-10 0.09% 0.05% -0.04%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.09% +0.04%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-1331

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.9 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-1331

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-1331

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-1331 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (lxc), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1331
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-1331 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (lxc), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid): released 4, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1331

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-1331

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
linuxcontainers lxc <= 1.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:linuxcontainers:lxc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-1331

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