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CVE-2015-8277

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8277 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Flexera FlexNet Publisher versions prior to 11.13.1.2 Security Update 1. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted packets with specific opcodes to the lmgrd or Vendor Daemon components. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 11.13.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:flexerasoftware:flexnet_publisher:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
28.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2868 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securitymumblings.blogspot.com / 2016/02/cve-2015-8277.html
ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-18-102-02
ics-cert.us-cert.gov / advisories/ICSA-18-212-05
rockwellautomation.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/1073133
sw.aveva.com / hubfs/assets-2018/pdf/security-bulletin/SecurityBulletin_LFSec129.pdf
support.citrix.com / article/CTX207824
securifera.com / advisories/cve-2015-8277
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/485744
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/83334
securitytracker.com / id/1035266