CVE-2015-5475

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Request Tracker (RT) 4.x before 4.2.12 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to the (1) user and (2) group rights management pages.

Published: 2015-08-14 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-5475 is rated Moderate Risk (46.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.08%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.63% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-5475

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 0.44% 2.08% +1.63%
2 2025-06-13 0.52% 0.44% -0.08%
3 2025-03-30 0.52%

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-5475

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-2015-5475

OS Trackers for CVE-2015-5475

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2015-5475 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (request-tracker4), 2 status rows across 2 suites (bookworm, bullseye): resolved 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5475
ubuntu medium CVE-2015-5475 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (request-tracker3.8, request-tracker4), 24 status rows across 12 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 11, not-affected 8, ignored 2, released 2, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5475

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-5475

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bestpractical request_tracker <= 4.2.11 cpe:2.3:a:bestpractical:request_tracker:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2015-5475

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