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CVE-2015-0283

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0283 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the slapi-nis plug-in, specifically versions prior to 0.54.2, affecting Red Hat systems. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger an infinite loop and high CPU consumption by requesting groups or users with a large number of associated members or groups. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.54.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:slapi-nis:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0312 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ipa-0:4.1.0-18.el7_1.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: slapi-nis-0:0.54-3.ael7b_1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-0283Moderate

slapi-nis: infinite loop in getgrnam_r() and getgrgid_r()

Mar 26, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154314.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/154103.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0728.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
git.fedorahosted.org / cgit/slapi-nis.git/commit
securityfocus.com / bid/73377