HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2015-1886

Websphere Portal vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.5%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
The Remote Document Conversion Service (DCS) in IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1.0 through 6.1.0.6 CF27, 6.1.5 through 6.1.5.3 CF27, 7.0.0 through 7.0.0.2 CF29, 8.0.0 before 8.0.0.1 CF16, and 8.5.0 through CF05 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted requests.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Websphere Portal
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2015-04-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-1886

  • Confirm whether Ibm Websphere Portal is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-1886.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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