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CVE-2015-2668

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2668 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in ClamAV versions prior to 0.98.7, affecting products like Canonical ClamAV and Ubuntu Linux. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an infinite loop by submitting a specially crafted xz archive file, leading to service unavailability. While the CVSS score is 5.0 (medium severity) and the EPSS score is low, indicating minimal exploitability, there is no known exploit code, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.98.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clamav:clamav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0321 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

blog.clamav.net / 2015/04/clamav-0987-has-been-released.html
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00024.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201512-08
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-2594-1
securityfocus.com / bid/74472