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CVE-2015-1201

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1201 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Privoxy versions prior to 3.0.22. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this flaw by causing excessive file descriptor consumption, leading to service disruption. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.0.21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:privoxy:privoxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0129 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: privoxy

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1201Low

privoxy: denial of service (file descriptor consumption) via unspecified vectors

Jan 20, 2015

References

secunia.com / advisories/62123