Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2015-1545

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1545 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenLDAP versions 2.4.13 through 2.4.40. A remote attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash the server by sending a search request with an empty attribute list within a deref control. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.4.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.4.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.4.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.4.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.4.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.4.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
11.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1109 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1545Moderate

openldap: slapd crashes on search with deref control and empty attr list

Feb 3, 2015

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00069.html
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/Dec/26
secunia.com / advisories/62787
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/100937
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Dec/23
support.apple.com / HT204659
support.apple.com / kb/HT210788
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3209
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openldap.org / devel/gitweb.cgi
openldap.org / its
ExploitVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/3
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
securityfocus.com / bid/72519
securitytracker.com / id/1032399