HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2015-4994

Domino vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in IBM Domino 8.5.1 through 8.5.3 before 8.5.3 FP6 IF10 and 9.x before 9.0.1 FP4 IF3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (SMTP daemon crash) via a crafted GIF image, aka SPRs KLYH9ZDKRE and KLYH9ZTLEZ, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5040.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Domino
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2015-10-29

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-4994

  • Confirm whether Ibm Domino is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-4994.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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