GHSA-jwvw-v7c5-m82h · Severity: high · Ecosystem: nuget — protobuf susceptible to buffer overflow
protobuf allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-5237 is rated Moderate Risk (60.8/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.78%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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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 | 2025-10-21 | 0.67% | 0.78% | +0.12% |
| 2 | 2025-10-17 | 0.76% | 0.67% | -0.10% |
| 3 | 2025-07-24 | — | 0.76% | — |
Full EPSS history (11 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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2.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 6.5 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
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8.0 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
GHSA-jwvw-v7c5-m82h · Severity: high · Ecosystem: nuget — protobuf susceptible to buffer overflow
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2015-5237 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (protobuf), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5237 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5237 |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2015-5237 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (protobuf), 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 11, not-affected 10, needed 2, released 2. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5237 |