CVE-2015-6569

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 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: 2018-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the LoadBalancer module in the Atlassian Floodlight Controller before 1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and thread crash) via a state manipulation attack.

Affected products

Atlassian Floodlight: before 1.2 — fixed in 1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Atlassian Floodlight 1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103132
https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/floodlightcontroller/pages/24805419/Floodlight+v1.2
https://github.com/floodlight/floodlight/pull/563
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103132
https://floodlight.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/floodlightcontroller/pages/24805419/Floodlight+v1.2
https://github.com/floodlight/floodlight/pull/563

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