Vulnerability in Oracle Solaris
CVE-2015-3900
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EPSS: 0.024 (85.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.3
- Rubygems — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Ruby-lang Ruby — versions 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 6.0, 7.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- RHSA-2015:1657 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- FEDORA-2015-12501 (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- FEDORA-2015-12574 (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- [oss-security] 20150626 rubygems <2.4.8 vulnerable to DNS request hijacking (CVE-2015-3900 and CVE-2015-4020) (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- 75482 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- FEDORA-2015-13157 (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2015-3900?
- CVE-2015-3900 is a vulnerability in Oracle Solaris, classified under CWE-254. Published 2015-06-24.
- Is CVE-2015-3900 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.