CVE-2015-1419

Unspecified vulnerability in vsftpd 3.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass access restrictions via unknown vectors, related to deny_file parsing.

Published: 2015-01-28 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-1419 is rated Moderate Risk (58.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 76.09%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. EPSS rose +4.07% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-1419

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 2026-04-26 72.03% 76.09% +4.07%
2 2026-03-05 64.11% 72.03% +7.91%
3 2025-10-28 64.11%

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-1419

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
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:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-1419

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-1419

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2015-1419 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (vsftpd), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-1419
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1419
suse medium CVE-2015-1419 severity moderate: SUSE including 18 source package names (vsftpd, vsftpd-2.0.7-4.29.1, …), 29 product×package rows across 28 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15, … (28 product lines)): Fixed 28, Known Not Affected 1. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1419/
ubuntu low CVE-2015-1419 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (vsftpd), 27 status rows across 27 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 22, ignored 3, needed 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1419

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-1419

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
opensuse opensuse 13.1 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse opensuse 13.2 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vsftpd_project vsftpd <= 3.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:vsftpd_project:vsftpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-1419

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