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CVE-2015-5288

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5288 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the crypt function of PostgreSQL's pgcrypto module, affecting versions before 9.0.23, 9.1.19, 9.2.14, 9.3.10, and 9.4.5. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger a server crash or read arbitrary server memory by providing a "too-short" salt. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and availability impacts. 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
<= 9.0.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:postgresql:postgresql:9.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0453 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (17)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: postgresql-0:8.4.20-4.el6_7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: postgresql-0:9.2.14-1.el7_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.5-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: postgresql92-postgresql-0:9.2.14-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.5-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: postgresql92-postgresql-0:9.2.14-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.5-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: postgresql92-postgresql-0:9.2.14-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.5-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: postgresql92-postgresql-0:9.2.14-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.5-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: postgresql92-postgresql-0:9.2.14-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: rh-postgresql94-postgresql-0:9.4.5-1.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUSFixed in: postgresql92-postgresql-0:9.2.14-1.el7
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5Fixed in: postgresql92-postgresql
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: postgresql
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: postgresql84

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5288Moderate

postgresql: limited memory disclosure flaw in crypt()

Oct 8, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00040.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-33
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3374
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3475
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
postgresql.org / about/news/1615
Vendor Advisory
postgresql.org / docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-23.html
Vendor Advisory
postgresql.org / docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.html
Vendor Advisory
postgresql.org / docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-14.html
Vendor Advisory
postgresql.org / docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.html
Vendor Advisory
postgresql.org / docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/77049
securitytracker.com / id/1033775
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2772-1