CVE-2015-0851 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting XMLTooling-C versions prior to 1.5.5, as well as products utilizing it like OpenSAML-C and Shibboleth Service Provider (SP). This flaw stems from improper handling of integer conversion exceptions, allowing remote attackers to crash affected systems by providing malformed XML data. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only resulting in availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:xmltooling_project:xmltooling:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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