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CVE-2015-4145

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-4145 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the EAP-pwd implementation of hostapd and wpa_supplicant versions 1.0 through 2.4, affecting products like openSUSE and w1.fi. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a memory leak by sending a crafted message, as the software fails to validate if a fragment is already being processed. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:hostapd:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:hostapd:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:hostapd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:hostapd:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:w1.fi:hostapd:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0340 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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 Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-4145Low

hostapd: EAP-pwd missing payload length validation

May 4, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00019.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201606-17
Third Party Advisory
w1.fi / security/2015-4/eap-pwd-missing-payload-length-validation.txt
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3397
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/05/09/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/6
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2650-1