CVE-2015-5245

CRLF injection vulnerability in the Ceph Object Gateway (aka radosgw or RGW) in Ceph before 0.94.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a crafted bucket name.

Published: 2015-12-03 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2015-5245 is rated Moderate Risk (45.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.91%). EPSS rose +1.55% 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-2015-5245

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 0.36% 1.91% +1.55%
2 2025-07-14 0.25% 0.36% +0.11%
3 2025-06-29 — 0.25% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-5245

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2015-5245

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-5245

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-5245 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ceph), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5245
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5245
ubuntu low CVE-2015-5245 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ceph), 16 status rows across 16 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 12, ignored 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5245

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2015-5245

Comment: <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/113.html">CWE-113: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting')</a>

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-5245

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat ceph <= 0.94.3 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ceph:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-5245

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