What is CVE-2015-3161?

CVE-2015-3161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Beaker-Project Beaker, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2017-09-06.

How severe is CVE-2015-3161?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

XSS in Beaker-Project Beaker

CVE-2015-3161

The search bar code in bkr/server/widgets.py in Beaker before 20.1 does not escape </script> tags in string literals when producing JSON.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-09-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (56.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 56.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Beaker-Project Beaker

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/08/1 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/74574 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
beaker-project.org/jenkins-results/beaker-review-checks-docs/995/documentation/… (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-3161?: CVE-2015-3161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Beaker-Project Beaker, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2017-09-06.
How severe is CVE-2015-3161?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.