CVE-2015-0226
Apache WSS4J before 1.6.17 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 improperly leaks information about decryption failures when decrypting an encrypted key…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Apache WSS4J before 1.6.17 and 2.0.x before 2.0.2 improperly leaks information about decryption failures when decrypting an encrypted key or message data, which makes it easier for remote attackers to recover the plaintext form of a symmetric key via a series of crafted messages. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-2487.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.ws.security:wss4jGHSA-vjwc-5hfh-2vv5 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.apache.wss4j:wss4j-ws-security-domGHSA-vjwc-5hfh-2vv5 (opens in a new tab)
References
11
- RHSA-2016:1376 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0849 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1176 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1177 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0848 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0846 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbgn03900en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://ws.apache.org/wss4j/advisories/CVE-2015-0226.txt.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0847 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 72553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-5374 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vjwc-5hfh-2vv5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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