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CVE-2015-2924

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2924 describes a vulnerability in the NetworkManager 1.x IPv6 stack, specifically within the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol's receive_ra function. This flaw allows remote attackers to manipulate a hop-limit setting by sending a crafted Router Advertisement (RA) message with a small hop_limit value. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating an adjacent network attack vector with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:networkmanager_project:networkmanager:*:dev:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 94 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 0.0 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 (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
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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-2015-2924Low

NetworkManager: denial of service (DoS) attack against IPv6 network stacks due to improper handling of Router Advertisements

Apr 2, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157803.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158103.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201509-05
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com / bid/76879