CVE-2015-1345

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1345 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU grep versions 2.19 through 2.21, specifically affecting the bmexec_trans function in kwset.c when processing crafted input with the -F option. This local vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a low attack complexity and impact limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grep:2.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grep:2.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:grep:2.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: grep-0:2.20-3.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: grep-0:2.20-2.el7
View patch