What is CVE-2015-2894?

CVE-2015-2894 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, classified under Use of Externally-Controlled Format String. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2015-12-31.

How severe is CVE-2015-2894?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor

CVE-2015-2894

Format string vulnerability in the up.time client in Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor 6.0 and 7.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers.

Published 2015-12-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (71.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 72nd percentile — 71.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor — versions 6.0, 7.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-134 — Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377260 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-2894?: CVE-2015-2894 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Idera Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, classified under Use of Externally-Controlled Format String. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2015-12-31.
How severe is CVE-2015-2894?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.