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CVE-2015-5247

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5247 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting libvirt versions 1.2.14 through 1.2.19 in products like Canonical Ubuntu Linux and Red Hat libvirt. A remote authenticated user with read-write access can crash the libvirtd service by creating a volume on a root_squash NFS pool and triggering a failed unlink operation. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity by a low-privileged user, leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:libvirt:1.2.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0137 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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 0.1 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-2015-5247Low

libvirt: denial of service when volume creation fails on NFS pool

Sep 3, 2015

References

security.libvirt.org / 2015/0003.html
Vendor Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2867-1