CVE-2015-5726
mediumpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.014 · 71 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.35% (71st) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The BER decoder in Botan 0.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an empty BIT STRING in ASN.1 data.
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cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
7.5
010
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
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weaknesses
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affected products (31)
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also known as (3)
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sources
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references (7)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://botan.randombit.net/security.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=33970cnnvd
- http://botan.randombit.net/security.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565enisa_euvd
- http://botan.randombit.net/security.htmlVendor Advisorynvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3565nvd
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