CVE-2015-4027

Exp

The AcuWVSSchedulerv10 service in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) before 10 build 20151125 allows local users to gain privileges via a command parameter in the reporttemplate property in a params JSON object to api/addScan.

Published: 2015-12-17 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-4027 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.9/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.00%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-4027

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
38847 exploit_db edb 2015-12-02 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-4027

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 2025-03-30 1.15% 1.00% -0.14%
2 2025-03-29 1.00% 1.15% +0.14%
3 2025-03-17 1.00%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-4027

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 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:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-4027

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-4027

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
acunetix web_vulnerability_scanner <= 10 cpe:2.3:a:acunetix:web_vulnerability_scanner:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-4027

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