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CVE-2015-2312

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Sandstorm Cap'n Proto before 0.4.1.1 and 0.5.x before 0.5.1.1 allows remote peers to cause a denial of service (CPU and possibly general resource consumption) via a list with a large number of elements.

Affected products

• capnproto: through 0.4.1.0; 0.5.0.0, 0.5.1.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/17/3
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780567
• https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/blob/master/security-advisories/2015-03-02-2-all-cpu-amplification.md
• https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/commit/104870608fde3c698483fdef6b97f093fc15685d
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/17/3
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780567
• https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/blob/master/security-advisories/2015-03-02-2-all-cpu-amplification.md
• https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/commit/104870608fde3c698483fdef6b97f093fc15685d

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