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CVE-2015-8745

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8745 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in QEMU when configured with VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support. A privileged guest user (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) can crash the QEMU process by manipulating Interrupt Mask Registers. This flaw has a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, resulting in high availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 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, 0.0 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8745Low

Qemu: net: vmxnet3: reading IMR registers leads to a crash via assert(2) call

Oct 12, 2015

References

git.qemu.org
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201602-01
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2016/dsa-3471
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/01/04/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/79822
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1034575
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry