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CVE-2015-0851

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

XMLTooling-C before 1.5.5, as used in OpenSAML-C and Shibboleth Service Provider (SP), does not properly handle integer conversion exceptions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via schema-invalid XML data.

Affected products

• Xmltooling Project Xmltooling: through 1.5.4

References

• http://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150721.txt
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3321
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76134
• https://git.shibboleth.net/view/?p=cpp-xmltooling.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2d795c731e6729309044607154978696a87fd900
• http://shibboleth.net/community/advisories/secadv_20150721.txt
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3321
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76134
• https://git.shibboleth.net/view/?p=cpp-xmltooling.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2d795c731e6729309044607154978696a87fd900

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