Critical severity · published Sep 25, 2017
CVE-2015-7510
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getpwnam and getgrnam functions of the NSS module nss-mymachines in systemd
9.8
CVSS
4.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the getpwnam and getgrnam functions of the NSS module nss-mymachines in systemd.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.3% · higher than 91% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SY
Systemd · Systemd Project
223 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7510
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7510
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1284642
Patch
https://github.com/keszybz/systemd/commit/cb31827d62066a04b02111df3052949fda4b6888
Exploit
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2002
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