THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2015-5292
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2015-5292

Sssd vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
3.7%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plugin (sssd_pac_plugin.so) in System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.10 before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of logins that trigger parsing of PAC blobs during Kerberos authentication.
Affected vendor
Fedoraproject
Affected product
Sssd
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2015-10-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.7% 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-2015-5292

  • Confirm whether Fedoraproject Sssd is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-5292.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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