CVE-2015-8556
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.
- 10.0CriticalCVSS base score
- 13.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Gentoo QEMU package before 2.5.0-r1.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- QEMU (Gentoo) - Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39010local, linuxpublished 17 Dec 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 39010 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 16 months later
· 16 months 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 | Critical10.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.4% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
3
- 39010 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134948/Gentoo-QEMU-Local-Privilege-Escalation.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_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-2015-8436 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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