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CVE-2015-1855

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1855 describes a hostname validation vulnerability in the OpenSSL extension of Ruby versions prior to 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.6, and 2.2.2, affecting products like Debian and Puppet. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) allows remote attackers to spoof servers due to improper handling of wildcards, case sensitivity, and non-ASCII characters in hostnames. While the attack complexity is high, a successful exploit could lead to significant integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.1.0, < 2.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p0:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p195:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0282 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Vendor Patches (8)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5.2Fixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: ruby200-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ruby

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1855Moderate

ruby: OpenSSL extension hostname matching implementation violates RFC 6125

Mar 30, 2015

References

bugs.ruby-lang.org / issues/9644
Third Party Advisory
puppetlabs.com / security/cve/cve-2015-1855
Third Party Advisory
ruby-lang.org / en/news/2015/04/13/ruby-openssl-hostname-matching-vulnerability
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3245
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3246
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3247
Third Party Advisory