What is CVE-2015-8157?

CVE-2015-8157 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Symantec Critical System Protection, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-06-08.

How severe is CVE-2015-8157?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

SQL Injection in Broadcom Symantec Critical System Protection

CVE-2015-8157

SQL injection vulnerability in the Management Server in Symantec Embedded Security: Critical System Protection (SES:CSP) 1.0.x before 1.0 MP5, Embedded Security: Critical System Protection for Controllers and Devices (SES:CSP) 6.5.0 before MP1, Critical System Protection (SCSP) before 5.2.9 MP6, Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server (DCS:SA) 6.x before 6.5 MP1 and 6.6 before MP1, and Data Center Security: Server Advanced Server and Agents (DCS:SA) through 6.6 MP1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2016-06-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.3% 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/90889 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp (Vendor Advisory, Technical Description)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-8157?: CVE-2015-8157 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Symantec Critical System Protection, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2016-06-08.
How severe is CVE-2015-8157?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.