01 Record
CVE-2015-8556
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.
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
- 13.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 10.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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
- 2017-03-24 14:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 08:20Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-12-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- 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
- d36fd3ae6ce9ec44f7d7d812d66412ffdfc2f2849441eacbb479d0bdcb5662c1
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.exploit-db.com39010https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39010/
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201602-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01