CVE-2015-2779

Stack consumption vulnerability in the message splitting functionality in Quassel before 0.12-rc1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncontrolled recursion) via a crafted massage.

Published: 2015-04-10 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-2779 is rated Moderate Risk (50.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.79%). EPSS rose +1.09% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-2779

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 2026-06-15 1.70% 2.79% +1.09%
2 2025-05-04 1.57% 1.70% +0.13%
3 2025-03-17 — 1.57% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-2779

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

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-2779

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-2779

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-2779 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (quassel), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-2779
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-2779 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (quassel), 13 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 8, not-affected 3, released 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2779

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-2779

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
quassel-irc quassel <= 0.11.0 cpe:2.3:a:quassel-irc:quassel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-2779

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