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CVE-2015-2779

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2779 describes a stack consumption vulnerability in Quassel versions prior to 0.12-rc1, specifically within its message splitting functionality. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted message, leading to uncontrolled recursion and a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring low attack complexity and resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quassel-irc:quassel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0278 is in the 78th 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

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163054.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158666.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00018.html
github.com / quassel/quassel/commit/b5e38970ffd55e2dd9f706ce75af9a8d7730b1b8
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/03/20/12
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/03/27/11
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/03/28/3
securityfocus.com / bid/74048