Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) before 2.5.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted SAML message.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-2684 is rated Low Risk (37.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.46%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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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 | 2025-07-19 | 0.80% | 0.46% | -0.35% |
| 2 | 2025-05-03 | 0.97% | 0.80% | -0.17% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 0.97% | — |
Full EPSS history (8 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2015-2684 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (shibboleth-sp2), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 6, not-affected 5, DNE 2, released 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2684 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| shibboleth | service_provider | <= 2.5.3 | cpe:2.3:a:shibboleth:service_provider:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| debian | debian_linux | 7.0 | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |