CVE-2015-1482

Exp

Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and obtain sensitive information via a websocket connection to socket.io/1/.

Published: 2015-02-04 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-1482 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 17.40%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 5 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +9.18% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-1482

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
35786 exploit_db edb 2015-01-14 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-1482

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 2025-04-13 8.22% 17.40% +9.18%
2 2025-03-30 14.92% 8.22% -6.71%
3 2025-03-29 14.92%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-1482

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:P/I:N/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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-1482

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-1482

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ansible tower <= 2.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:ansible:tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-1482

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