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CVE-2015-5222

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5222 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0.0.0. Authenticated users with build permissions can execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges on build pods due to improper permission checks. With a CVSS score of 8.5 (High), this vulnerability allows for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:C/I:C/A:C) through a network-based attack with medium complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, suggesting it is not widely targeted.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift:3.0.0.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

8.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0269 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0Fixed in: openshift-0:3.0.1.0-1.git.527.f8d5fed.el7ose
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5222Important

OpenShift3: Exec operations should be forbidden to privileged pods such as builder pods

Aug 19, 2015

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015:1650
Vendor Advisory