CVE-2015-8863

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

7.56% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 94.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (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:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. 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.

Published

2016-05-06 17:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:29Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-04-23

Assigning CNA

debian

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-122Heap-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

c1f0d85102fbc21657ade794cf0848bfc788056d3bffcfbd706c007a58164733

• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1106http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1106.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1099http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1099.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160423 Re: CVE Request: jq: heap buffer overflow in tokenadd() functionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1212http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00012.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1098http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1098.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802231x_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/stedolan/jq/commit/8eb1367ca44e772963e704a700ef72ae2e12babdx_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/995x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160423 CVE Request: jq: heap buffer overflow in tokenadd() functionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/23/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1214http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00014.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201612-20https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-20vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO