CVE-2015-5179

Exp

FreeIPA might display user data improperly via vectors involving non-printable characters.

Published: 2017-09-20 Last update: 2026-05-13 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-5179 is rated High Exploit Risk (66.8/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.06%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2015-5179

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-5179

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 0.32% 1.06% +0.74%
2 2026-06-11 0.20% 0.32% +0.12%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.20% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-5179

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]
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-2015-5179

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-5179

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2015-5179 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (freeipa), 3 status rows across 3 suites (bookworm, sid, trixie): open 3. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5179
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5179
ubuntu low CVE-2015-5179 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (freeipa), 25 status rows across 25 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 17, needed 7, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5179

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-5179

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
freeipa freeipa <= 4.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:freeipa:freeipa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-5179

URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252567 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/5153 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
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