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CVE-2015-10141

51
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-10141 describes an unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerability in Xdebug versions 2.5.5 and earlier, a PHP debugging extension. When remote debugging is enabled, an attacker can send crafted debugger protocol commands to execute arbitrary PHP code, leading to full host compromise under web server user privileges. This critical vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.3, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit modules exist in Metasploit and Nuclei, and it has significant community discussion, suggesting active interest and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
XdebugXdebug
>= 0, <= 2.5.5CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

9.3CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.03%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: xdebug Unauthenticated OS Command Execution · Sep 17, 2017
Nuclei: CVE-2015-10141 · Mar 13, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0503 is in the 85th 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-10141Moderate

xdebug: Xdebug Remote Debugger Command Execution

Jul 23, 2025

References

kirtixs.com / blog/2015/11/13/xpwn-exploiting-xdebug-enabled-servers
exploit-db.com / exploits/44568
fortiguard.com / encyclopedia/ips/46000
vulncheck.com / advisories/xdebug-remote-debugger-unauth-os-command-execution
xdebug.org
web.archive.org / web/20231226215418/https://paper.seebug.org/397