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CVE-2015-7665

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7665 describes a vulnerability in Tails before version 1.7, where the included wget program's automatic fallback from passive to active FTP could expose the Tor client's IP address to remote FTP servers. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.3) has a low impact on confidentiality, allowing an attacker to discover the user's real IP address. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:tails_project:tails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.60%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0160 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

git.savannah.gnu.org / cgit/wget.git/commit
labs.riseup.net / code/issues/10364
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/bug-wget/2015-08/msg00020.html
mailman.boum.org / pipermail/tails-dev/2015-August/009370.html
mailman.boum.org / pipermail/tails-dev/2015-October/009591.html
tails.boum.org / news/version_1.7/index.en.html
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/10/01/10
securityfocus.com / bid/76678