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CVE-2015-0272

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0272 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNOME NetworkManager, affecting products from Canonical, GNOME, Oracle, and SUSE. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending a crafted IPv6 Router Advertisement message with a malicious MTU value, leading to IPv6 traffic disruption. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:networkmanager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo:11:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo:11:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0506 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ModemManager-0:1.1.0-8.git20130913.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: NetworkManager-1:1.0.6-27.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: network-manager-applet-0:1.0.6-2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: NetworkManager-libreswan-0:1.0.6-3.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-0272Moderate

NetworkManager: remote DoS using IPv6 RA with bogus MTU

Feb 23, 2015

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/76814
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2792-1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory