CVE-2015-0851

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2015-0851 · Published 12/08/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-0851 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting xmltooling (xmltooling project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 84.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xmltooling xmltooling_project	`≤ 1.5.4`	No fix yet

Description

XMLTooling-C before 1.5.5, as used in OpenSAML-C and Shibboleth Service Provider (SP), does not properly handle integer conversion exceptions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via schema-invalid XML data.

References

shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150721.txt · Vendor Advisory
debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3321
securityfocus.com/bid/76134
git.shibboleth.net/view

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