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CVE-2015-5198

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5198 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting libvdpau versions prior to 1.1.1, specifically when used in setuid or setgid applications, impacting Canonical Ubuntu Linux and libvdpau_project. It carries a CVSS v2 score of 7.2 (High), indicating that a local attacker can achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not a widely targeted vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libvdpau_project:libvdpau:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
30.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 3,236 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvdpau

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5198Moderate

libvdpau incorrect check for security transition

Aug 31, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170637.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165546.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167469.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00012.html
lists.x.org / archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3355
securityfocus.com / bid/76636
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2729-1