What is CVE-2015-5727?

CVE-2015-5727 is a high-severity vulnerability in Botan Project, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-13.

How severe is CVE-2015-5727?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Botan Project

CVE-2015-5727

The BER decoder in Botan 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, related to a length field.

Published 2016-05-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Botan Project — versions 1.10.0, 1.10.1, 1.10.2
Debian Linux — versions 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565 (vendor-advisory)
botan.randombit.net/security.html (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-5727?: CVE-2015-5727 is a high-severity vulnerability in Botan Project, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2016-05-13.
How severe is CVE-2015-5727?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.