CVE-2015-8946

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

0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 28.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

3.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

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

2016-07-22 14:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 08:36Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-07-14

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
• CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

83e95266235c28110939e7dd7f595d6d0e69aab84a349e08ffee0749fd776984

• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160714 Re: CVE Requests: Information exposure caused by ecryptfs-setup-swap failureshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/14/3mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160713 CVE Requests: Information exposure caused by ecryptfs-setup-swap failureshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/13/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• bazaar.launchpad.nethttps://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ecryptfs/ecryptfs/trunk/revision/857x_refsource_CONFIRM
• bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/1447282x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-3032-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3032-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU