CVE-2015-0885
checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.
02 Description
checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.42% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-02-28 02:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 04:26Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-01-08
- Assigning CNA
- jpcert
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9b197ab04b66a6361afc652ca2be9b47cf09df2fbf8579f28168953609c22ab3
05 Affected products
06 References
- jvn.jpJVN#34790526http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html
- jvn.jphttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3192http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192
- checkpw.sourceforge.nethttp://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt
- jvndb.jvn.jpJVNDB-2015-000032http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- checkpw Fixed in 1.02-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- checkpw Fixed in 1.02-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- checkpw Fixed in 1.02-1+deb6u1build0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.