Medium severity · published Dec 22, 2015
CVE-2015-8373
The kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-beta in ISC Kea, when certain debugging settings are used, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash)…
6.8
CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-beta in ISC Kea, when certain debugging settings are used, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed packet.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.7% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kea · Isc
0.9.2; 1.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8373
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8373
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175218.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175337.html
Vendor Advisory
https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01318
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