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CVE-2015-8915

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8915 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in bsdcpio within libarchive versions prior to 3.2.0, allowing remote attackers to crash the application via a crafted cpio file. This vulnerability has a CVSSv3 score of 5.5 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.1.901aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libarchive:libarchive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 5,760 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 Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libarchive
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libarchive

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8915Low

libarchive: crash via malformed cpio archive

Apr 28, 2015

References

blog.fuzzing-project.org / 47-Many-invalid-memory-access-issues-in-libarchive.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / libarchive/libarchive/issues/503
Exploit
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00037.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201701-03
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/2
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/06/17/5
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/91298