CVE-2015-5285

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CRLF injection vulnerability in Kallithea before 0.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the came_from parameter to _admin/login.

Published: 2015-10-29 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-5285 is rated High Exploit Risk (68.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.04%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: 5 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-2015-5285

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
38424 exploit_db edb 2015-10-08 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-5285

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 5.31% 6.04% +0.73%
2 2025-06-26 7.13% 5.31% -1.82%
3 2025-03-30 7.13%

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-5285

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: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-2015-5285

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2015-5285

GHSA-vfg9-phjp-9frw · Severity: high · Ecosystem: pip — Kallithea CRLF injection vulnerability

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2015-5285

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-2015-5285

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kallithea-scm kallithea <= 0.2 cpe:2.3:a:kallithea-scm:kallithea:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-5285

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