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CVE-2015-8791

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8791 is a heap information disclosure vulnerability affecting libEBML before version 1.3.3, including products like matroska. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious EBML id with a specific length value, leading to an invalid memory access and potential disclosure of sensitive process heap memory. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and network access (AV:N) for exploitation, primarily impacting confidentiality (C:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat level.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:matroska:libebml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0134 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 26,219 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 0.1 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)

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.matroska.org / pipermail/matroska-users/2015-October/006985.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00035.html
github.com / Matroska-Org/libebml/blob/release-1.3.3/ChangeLog
Vendor Advisory
github.com / Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/24e5cd7c666b1ddd85619d60486db0a5481c1b90
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3538